Eigg Dinosaur Bone

Description

Fossil dinosaur limb bone, NMS G.2020.10.1, from the Isle of Eigg, Scotland. This bone is the first unequivocal dinosaur fossil found outside the Isle of Skye, and is described in Panciroli et al. (2020). It is Middle Jurassic in age. It belongs to a thyreophoran dinosaur, the same group that includes stegosaurs. Nicknamed ‘StEiggOsaurus’, this bone is probably a fibula (lower leg bone).