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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 ...
Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.
From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
Scientists have identified a flying reptile species that lived around 209 million years ago, during the Late Triassic period.
Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.
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Arizona Bonebed Yields North America’s Oldest Pterosaur
A 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 ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, quarrying a bonebed in Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park in ...