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Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.
A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...
Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...
Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...
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Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
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Smithsonian Magazine on MSNA Bone Bed From the Dawn of the Dinosaurs Has Revealed the Oldest Known Pterosaur Found in North AmericaPaleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
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The Southern Maryland Chronicle on MSNArizona Bonebed Yields North America’s Oldest PterosaurA Smithsonian-led research team has discovered the oldest known pterosaur in North America, a sea gull-sized winged reptile ...
The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...
From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...
A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences introduced Eotephradactylus mcintireae, the earliest pterosaur yet found in North America and among the oldest recorded ...
The newly-found fossils are 209 million years old and include pterosaurs, primitive frogs and lizard-like reptiles ...
Eotephradactylus mcintireae’ is the oldest-known flying reptile from the continent and roamed the skies 209 million years ago ...
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