Dracoraptor is a genus of coelophysoid dinosaur that lived during the Hettangian stage of the Early Jurassic Period of what is now Wales dated at about 201 million years ago. The fossil was first disc
A lifesize model of a Dracoraptor at the National Museum Cardiff
Alioramus Life Restoration
The Blue Lias is a geological formation in southern, eastern and western England and parts of South Wales, part of the Lias Group. The Blue Lias consists of a sequence of limestone and shale layers, l
Lower Lias sequence exposed at Nash Point, Glamorgan, Wales
Blue Lias formation at Lyme Regis, Dorset
Lytes Cary, Somerset, built of Blue Lias with Ham stone dressings around the windows
The holotype of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, on display at the Natural History Museum in London