A fossil was found near Idrija, which the Ivan Rakovec Paleontological Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts confirmed to be a 235-million-year-old tooth of a vertebrate, a marine reptile called a placodont. This animal inhabited the warm shallows on the edge of the Tethys Ocean at the time. The tooth found may be the largest ever found from this period.
A fossil was found near Idrija, which the Ivan Rakovec Paleontological Institute of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts confirmed to be a 235-million-year-old tooth of a vertebrate, a marine reptile called a placodont. This animal inhabited the warm shallows on the edge of the Tethys Ocean at the time. The tooth found may be the largest ever found from this period.