A research affiliate for National Museums Scotland, Dr Panciroli said she 'ran right over it' and wasn't exactly sure what type of dinosaur it belonged to initially. Where would you like to go next? She said that in 200 years of searching the area 'no-one has found a dinosaur before, so this is quite special' and a 'hugely significant find'.Elsa Panciroli made the 'serendipitous discovery' on the Isle of Eigg. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline.

Get an iPhone! Pic: S. BrusatteDr Elsa Panciroli stumbled on the fossil while running.
A 166-million-year-old dinosaur fossil has been found by a scientist while out running along the beach of a Scottish island.Measuring around 50cm (19in) long, the ancient limb bone is thought to belong to a stegosaurian dinosaur, such as the recognisable stegosaurus, and dates to the Middle Jurassic period.Discovered on the Isle of Eigg, it is the first time such a fossil has been discovered in Dr Elsa Panciroli, a research affiliate at National Museums Scotland, made the "hugely significant find" while going to meet her palaeontology colleagues on the inner Hebridean island.She said: "I was running along the shore on my way back to meet the rest of the team and I ran right over it. 'The bone is now in the collections of National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh.The fieldwork on the Isle of Eigg was funded by the National Geographic Society with the permission of The Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust.The paper is published in Earth And Environmental Transactions Of The Royal Society Of Edinburgh.Dinosaurs ruled and dominated Earth around 66 million years ago, before they suddenly went extinct. ... Middle Jurassic fossils are rare and until now the only dinosaur fossils found in Scotland were on the Isle of Skye.

When this was dated, it coincided precisely with when the dinosaurs disappeared from the fossil record.

In the 1980s, paleontologists discovered a layer of iridium.This is an element that is rare on Earth but is found  in vast quantities in space. We’ll ask you to confirm this for your first post to Facebook.You can choose on each post whether you would like it to be posted to Facebook. "The bone was found in a boulder on the foreshore and though it was badly damaged by waves, there was enough remaining for a team of palaeontologists to study.It was taken to a laboratory to be removed from the rock and was found to be part of the hind limb of a stegosaur. Eigg beach runner stumbles on dinosaur bone.

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To do this we will link your MailOnline account with your Facebook account. 'This bone is 166 million years old and provides us with evidence that stegosaurs were living in Scotland at this time,' said Dr Panciroli.The bone dates to the Middle Jurassic period and is about 200 inches long - it was found in a boulder on the foreshore of the island.Though it had been badly damaged by the waves, enough remained for a team of palaeontologists to study it and discover more about the creature.The bone was extracted and taken to a laboratory to be removed from the rock, where it was found to be part of the hind limb of a stegosaur.The new Eigg dinosaur fossil found by Panciroli dates to the same period of time as similar fossils found on the Isle of Skye.The Isle of Eigg is already known for its Jurassic fossils, particularly marine reptiles and fish, first discovered by 19th century geologist Hugh Miller.Dr Steve Brusatte, of the University of Edinburgh, co-authored a paper on the find and said it was a 'remarkable' discovery.