Bishop Bell's Behemoth, Or The Paleontological Prelate

The following would appear to be facts:* Bishop Bell died in 1495 or 1496.* The brasswork of Bishop Bell's tomb is decorated with a number of animal images; the images below are clearly meant to be more animals. * If we had to identify these animals from the rather crude engravings, then certainly the one at the front of the picture looks more like a standard quadrapedal dinosaur than anything else.* Tampering with the image would involve removing whatever was engraved there and engraving something else, while the brass was affixed to the foloor in the middle of Carlisle Cathedral. Besides the implausibility of any such hoax, there is also no evidence whatsoever that anything like this ever happened.* All the geological evidence we have suggests that dinosaurs went extinct around the end of the Cretaceous period.* No chronicler records dinosaurs or anything like them roaming around fifteenth century England.* The Cathedral and other old buildings of Carlisle are built out of red sandstone quarried locally. ** In the late fifteenth century, the Fratry (monastic institution) just opposite the Cathedral, was almost entirely rebuilt *, out of this same red sandstone. A picture of the Fratry can be seen here.* Looking at a geological map, *, we find that Carlisle is situated in an area of Upper Triassic bedrock. (Carlisle is not marked on the map, but you can find it here By looking at the geological map in the same spot, we can see that it's built on stratum 15, i.e. the Upper Triassic.* Basal dinosaurs such as the Melanorosauridae [Palaeos: Page not found] are known from English rocks of the Upper Triassic, and were quadrapedal like the dinosaurs on Bishop Bell's tomb.* People who have never seen living dinosaurs can still draw pictures of them, as demonstrated by the picture of a melanosaurid below. ---The following is conjecture:* In the late fifteenth century, Cumbrian quarrymen unearthed the fossil bones of a Triassic dinosaur. They drew this to the attention of the local clergy, who were able to make a crude reconstruction of the beast by studying its bones.It is, however, a conjecture which fits the facts.What do you think? Is this plausible?Does anyone have an explanation which fits the facts better?

Thread copied to the Bishop Bell's Behemoth, Or The Paleontological Prelate thread in the Miscellaneous Topics in Creation/Evolution forum, this copy of the thread has been closed.