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A footprint of a bear, found in Jumilla, with a length of 6 million years ago has been released to take part in the exhibition "The secrets hidden in the rocks, fossils of Murcia, which is displayed in the Archaeological Museum Murcia from 16 October to 4 January.
In this way, has been released into the plaster slab Hoya de la Sima with the footprints of a bear (Agriotherium), which is preserved in the Municipal Museum "Jerónimo Molina" Ethnography and Natural Sciences of Jumilla.
The piece in question was found in a rubbish dump, by James Smith Santos in January 2000 and donated to the Municipal Museum, where you can see in the Hall of Paleontology, properly preserved, restored and treated.
The slab keeps two fossil footprints of bear, its front legs, belonging to the order of carnivores, the family and gender ursids Agriotherium, now extinct.
It was a bear that measured about two feet long with a shoulder height of 120 centimeters and lived in Jumilla at the end of the Tertiary Age, during the Messinian, with a length of 6 million years.
Bears in the town of Jumilla were frequent at that time because their fingerprints were found on both sites of footprints there, the Hoya de la Sima and the Sierra de las Cabras, with bear bones dating up to the Pleistocene Middle-Superior, in the Cave of the Bones, with a length of between 500,000 and 125,000 years.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla
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