新发现的这个物种被命名为Durlstotherim newmani,得名于热心的业余古生物学家查理•纽曼的名字。51岁的纽曼是沃斯麦特勒佛的Square and Compass酒馆的老板,他在酒馆里创办了自己的化石博物馆,帮助科学家收集到了这些新样本。
Mr Newman, made headlines in 2017 when he built his own 12ft high ‘Stonehenge’ using 35 tonnes of timber in a field he owns in the village, although he was later ordered to tear it down by Purbeck District Council.
纽曼曾在2017年用自己农场里的35吨木材建造了一个12英尺高的“巨石阵”,并因此登上了资讯头条,不过后来波倍克区议会命他将其拆除。
The new species were identified from just a handful of fossilised teeth which were found by Portsmouth University undergraduate Grant Smith earlier this year, and identified by Dr Steve Sweetman, a research fellow at the university.
今年早些时候,朴茨茅斯大学的本科生格兰特•史密斯发现了一把牙齿化石,该校的研究员史蒂夫•斯威特曼博士根据这些化石识别出了这一新物种。
Dr Sweetman said: “Grant was sifting through small samples of earliest Cretaceous rocks collected on the coast of Dorset as part of his undergraduate dissertation project in the hope of finding some interesting remains.
斯威特曼博士说:“格兰特当时正在筛选从多赛特海岸上收集到的最早的白垩纪小块岩石样本,希望能找到一些有趣的遗骸用于他的本科论文项目。”
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