Dinosaur remains discovered in Rumelange

Two hobby palaeontologists have made an exciting discovery in Rumelange which has been identified and confirmed by staff specialists from the National Museum of Art and History (MNHA). The palaeontologists discovered a fragment of a breastplate belonging to a type of thyreophora dinosaur.

Thyreophora were medium sized herbivores, of which the most famous are the stegosaurus and ankylosaurus. According to the museum specialists, the Luxembourgish specimen is similar to the scelidosaurus.

This exciting discovery is the second time that dinosaur remains have been found in Luxembourg, although this is the first time remains from the Middle Jurassic Bajocian age have been found. In 2014, remains of a smaller type of tyrannosaurus rex were found.

This discovery is also exciting as it is rare to find a sample of the thyreophora species that is not a stegosaurus.

© Roland Felten