"Jurassic newcomer"

October 23, I visited the exhibition "Jurassic newcomer" in the Krasnoyarsk regional museum.
Fossil fragments of ancient animals found in Berezovsky coal mine, photos and films about the excavations of paleontologists.




The greatest attention is attracted by a unique exhibit - a stegosaurus skeleton, found in the Krasnoyarsk region, Berezovsky coal mine, near the town of Sharypovo. According to experts, the age of a Stegosaurus skeleton - more than 165 million years, and, to date, is the only skeleton of Stegosaurus in Russia. Group of paleontologists led by Sergei Krasnolutsky over 8 years unearthed and glued bones of herbivorous dinosaur that lived in the Late Jurassic period. At the exhibition visitors will see and Stegosaurus layout in natural size.

Stegosaurus presented in the museum, is one of the most ancient Stegosaurus known in the fossil record of the world, and belongs probably to a new species.

The wealth of fossils of Middle Berezovsky unparalleled career in Russia. During his study of bones and teeth are large sauropods have been found, two-legged predators tirannozavroidov, Stegosaurus, ornithopods and many other ancient animals - turtles, salamanders, fish, pterosaurs, crocodiles.

It is worth noting the excellent organization of the exhibition:
1) The bright, spacious rooms.
2) A qualified supervisor, who told interesting about each exhibit.
3) interesting summaries to each exhibit.

 Among the few drawbacks is worth noting a lot of noise because of the children. Despite the fact that the recommended age for visits  is 12+ . There were lots of children aged 5 years and younger. This is a parents mistake  to take a young child to an exhibition that he was not interested.

Overall, I am very impressed. I really liked the exhibition, I learned a lot.