Bambina paleontologa
Con la sua paletta di plastica Emily Baldry (5 anni) di Chippenham, Wiltshire, ha rinvenuto un fossile a spirale Rieneckia odysseus del giurassico, pesante 60 kg per 40 cm di diametro, ora esposto al Gateway Information Centre di Cirencester, Gloucestershire.


Girl, 5, found 160million year old fossil with a beach spade. Lucky Emily Baldry unearthed the massive Rieneckia odysseus fossil during her first archaeological dig last year. And now after months of restoration she has donated it to a museum to be enjoyed by the public. She pulled the 130lb specimen — which has a diameter of 40cm — out of the ground in March last year when she was just five. Emily, who lives in Chippenham, Wilts, was reunited with the rock on Sunday when she presented it to the Gateway Information Centre near Cirencester, Gloucs. The stone will go on display at the centre, run by the Cotswold Water Park Trust, for three weeks for other experts and children to admire. The fossilised sea creature with a spiral-patterned shell was a mollusc that lived in the oceans during the Jurassic period — the same time as dinosaurs. Emily's fossil had spikes to ward off predators and was encased in a block of mudstone when it came out of the ground... Swns / The Sun