The Dinosaur Dave on Nostr: The weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Baryonyx In January 1983, plumber and amateur ...

The weeks #Lego #FossilFriday is #Baryonyx

In January 1983, plumber and amateur fossil collector William J. Walker found a rock with a large claw in it. After taking it home he realized the tip was gone

A few weeks later he returned to the same place and found the tip, a phalanx bone and part of a rib.

In February 1983, palaeontologists Alan J. Charig and Angela C. Milner, after seeing the find, went to the pit and found more fragments.

In 1986, Charig and Milner named it Baryonyx walkeri.