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The Museum Jerónimo Molina has donated several replicas of fossil footprints at the University of Murcia, made with own means City of Jumilla.
In the ceremony held this morning at the section of Natural Sciences of the Municipal Museum they have been present the Councillor for Culture, Pilar Martinez, the director of this section of the museum, Cayetano Herrero, director of the Department of Teaching Experimental Sciences Faculty of Education, Maria Victoria Valcárcel, and Gregorio Romero, on behalf of the Directorate General of Culture.
Pilar Martínez said that "this donation is the first step to create a link of collaboration with the aim of helping the public university to research and teaching, so that students can see first hand the paleontological heritage with which we in the region".
This is dinosaur tracks found in the Sierra de Los Gavilanes, according Cayetano "very important because it is localized to the south of Europe, those closer to the date dating extinction found peculiar Herrero by her nails claw and not rounded as it was known until now. All this makes them different from the rest at national level. "
Meanwhile, Maria Victoria Valcárcel praised the great work being done in the Jerónimo Molina Museum which he described as "of great importance to national and international level".
He also expressed the gratitude of the University of Murcia for the donation, because "it will be a fundamental work material for students, which will learn more about these animals in the past."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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