The fossil studied by Bodenham was originally discovered in Gloucestershire in 1969 but had remained in the Natural History Museum collection for decades before being examined in detail.<\/p>\n
The geological deposits where it was found occur across south Wales and south-west England. <\/p>\n
His former teacher’s influence played a major role in shaping his academic path, even though he ultimately chose to pursue biology rather than physics, which Jones jokingly refers to as a “softer science”.<\/p>\n
“Mr Jones was just such a good teacher, not only in being able to explain things well, but you could tell that he was genuinely interested in the sciences. I think that really inspired me,” said Bodenham.<\/p>\n
“He also didn’t let me settle. He was very good at challenging people and helping students be the best they can be. Above all, he’s a very funny, genuine, nice guy.<\/p>\n
“He was also a big part in getting me to go to London, as he went to UCL as well and really helped to push me to go there.”<\/p>\n
Bodenham said the decision to name the species after Jones had been warmly received by both his former teacher and the wider community. <\/p>\n
He noted that other potential candidates for the honour, such as family members and his girlfriend, had not been upset by the decision. <\/p>\n
“It’s been a very positive response and I think he [Jones] has also received a lot of nice messages and is a very well-liked person within the school and community,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fossil studied by Bodenham was originally discovered in Gloucestershire in 1969 but had remained in the Natural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-430769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}