Boy discovers Jurassic fossils in his own garden in Derbyshire

A paleontologist has fosil fossils in his garden dating from 140 million years.

Elliott, seven years old, moved to his new home in Matlock, Derbantshire, three months ago.

Duration in the front garden, excavated limestone rocks from the ground after they have exposed.

When they opened them, he and his parents discovered that they were full of Jurassic creatures.

Elliott said: “I love fossils. It made me very happy that we have found it.

“When I look at one of my fossils, it makes me really interested and I think how many dinosaurs can I find?

“Finding fossils is really inspiring and I want to do it more. They look great.”

His mother Gemma, 42, added: “He is very excited, I am not sure that we like to dig up the garden so much.

“But what is finding is very exciting, I am very proud of him.”

Dr. Susannah Lydon, paleontologist at Nottingham University, said fossils were more common than people could expect.

She added: “In the United Kingdom, most of our fossils are hidden under vegetation, in which the rocks in which they are not on the surface or are revealed by erosion.

“Good places tend to be where the rocks erode, which tends to be the coast.”

While Matlock sits in a rock that used to be an ancient reef and has many own fossils, Dr. Lydon believes that these fossils were brought from other places by humans.

She thinks that this was probably made by collectors or builders who took them from Dorset.

She said that the rocks had between 140 and 180 million years and contained moluscos with ammonite spirit that lived in the oceans while the dinosaurs wandered around the earth.

“The joy of fossil hunting is to find something that nothing else has seen for millions of years,” he added.

“It gives you a vision of all those years.”

She said that those interested in finding yours do not need any specialized team, adding that they just need to know where to go.

She advised that beginners should take a guided tour to learn about the rock child to take into account, and that the best time and place to detect them by cliffs after a storm.