What was missing!: Lionel Messi already has a fossil that bears his name

2023-06-07 17:07:58

Football fan and Argentine National Teamhe Argentine researcher and paleontologist Damián E. Pérez he had no better idea than baptize with the name of Discinisca Messii -in homage to Lionel Messi- to a new and strange species of marine organism that he discovered in Patagonia.

It is the remains of a brachiopodthat is, of a small and lonely marine animal of about 2.5 centimeters long that presents a great resemblance to clams, and? It inhabited the Patagonian seas approximately 20,000,000 years ago.

“When we found it, it caught our attention very quickly since this shell has a glassy appearance. It was a filter-feeding animal that surely had few predatorsespecially because of how unusual he was: weird like Messi”, he commented.

as far as i understand It is the first fossil that bears the name of Messi. The name arose spontaneously, since while we were working on the identification of this new species of shell, the Qatar 202 World Cup was taking place2,” Perez said.

“The work was sent, in its final version, on December 20, 2022 to the magazine ameghinian, while all the Argentine people celebrated the arrival of the players to the country. There was no other option. Is a small way to dedicate something to one of the two most important players in the history of the Argentine National Team and world footballand to thank for the happiness that he gave us”, added the Argentine scientist.

Although the discovery of the fossil remains took place in 2021, when Pérez and a group of colleagues from the Patagonian Institute of Geology and Paleontology of CENPATThey decided to study Gaiman Formationlocated to the east of the province of chubutin search of fossil remains of whales, dolphins and sharksthe official presentation of this new species took place only now.

It was so that in June 2021 they found the remains of a brachiopod in the vicinity of Bryn Gwynm Paleontological Parklocated 7 kilometers from the town of Gaiman which has now become the first fossil that bears the name of the best player in the world today.

It should be noted that, although so far about 450 living species of brachiopods have already been identified worldwidein the fossil record covering about 500,000,000 yearsthere are already between 12,000 and 30,000 species.

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