Paleontologists have suggested the prints may belong to a plant-eating dinosaur that roamed the area more than 200 million years ago Abigail Adams is a Human Interest Writer and Reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working in journalism for seven years.

The schoolgirl spotted five enormous footprints that dinosaur experts believe are the mark of a camelotia that was there more than 200 million years ago. Palaeontologists think the footprints, which are up to 75cm (30in) apart, were made by a huge herbivore from the late triassic period, and now there are efforts to get them verified.

Imagine walking along a beach when you find dinosaur footprints preserved in stone for 200 million years. That may seem like the plot of a children’s book, but for 10-year-old Tegan, it became her own ‘cool and exciting’ reality on the south Wales coast.

Palaeontologists believe that the enormous footprints that Tegan found were made around 200 million years ago.