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> A Short History
of Aveyron
The
Age of the Plesiosaurus
In
1986 the fossilised skeleton of a plesiosaurus from Jurassic times was
discovered near Tournemire. This gentle marine reptile of the Secondary
Era might have grown to five metres in length and would have frolicked
in what then would have been an Aveyronnaise sea. To date this is the
most complete specimen found in France and would have lived about 180
million years ago. This skeleton is exhibited in The Museum in Millau
and is well worth seeing.
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