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A 95% complete ''J. davignoni'' was discovered on accident in 1980 by miners in Marsbury in the northern Ionian Mountains, [[Urcea]]. A joint team of Yonderian and Urcean paleontologists painstakingly uncovered the specimen, named UJMN 872 and quickly nicknamed "Big Yon". The specimen measured about 9 meters (about 29 ft) in length and showed remarkable signs of healed or partially healed {{wpl|Paleopathology|injuries}}. Nineteen of its bones were broken or showed signs of infection, which may have contributed to "Big Yon's" death. Pathologic bones included five ribs, five vertebrae, and four bones of the feet; several damaged bones showed osteomyelitis, a bone infection. A particular problem for the living animal was infection and trauma to the right foot that probably affected movement and may have also predisposed the other foot to injury because of a change in gait. "Big Yon" had an infection on the first phalanx on the third toe that was afflicted by an involucrum.