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The question for Paleontologist Ben Kligman was this: this fragile jaw bone pterosaur or not?
Other researchers also have questions about Fossil, there were questions with thousands of other in archeological excavations in a long-term bone bed in length Petrified Forest National Park In Arizona. Some thought that the bone could be a mammal.
Now their new research provides information about the oldest known flying reptiles in North America, which is a “small seaside” in Northern America’s Kligman and other paleontologists.
Smithsonian-led paper, Published on Monday The discovery of a new Pterosaur Fossail discovery in the court hearing of the National Academy of Sciences, a new Pterosaur Fossil discovery that provides information about the late Tria.
Ben Kligman
Kligman remembers to look at the jaw bone under a microscope in Smithsonian – where Peter Buck Postdoctoral The place where the fossil is sent and the anatomy of the tricean jaw will be the “Rolodex” in Rolodex, which can be a similar jaw. He wanted to solve the mystery of the elegant jaw bone.
The cligman said that this is not another animal and think that other researchers will be such an employee and other researchers could not conclude that other researchers are, this is a very important discovery. “
The team called Pterosaur, named Eotefradactylus Mcintireae, which means “the goddess of ash-winged dawn”. The name of the species, voluntarily voluntarily volunteered in Smithsonian, Suzanne McINTIRE Phoscilab It has been 18 years.
Discovered Pterosaur Fossilin, including Museum of Petrified Forest National Park, along with MCIttire, bones, teeth, fish scales and koprolite or koprolite or koprolitis or koprolitis.
Volunteers perform each fossil, flag flags, other fossil conservation tasks and perform other fossil conservation tasks. McIttare opened the jaw and saw the teeth still in the bone, it simplified.
Ben Kligman
Winged creep – a cousin close to dinosaurs and The first animals After improving the powerful flight after insects, it would be comfortable in a person’s shoulder.
“It could sit on your shoulder like a small seagull,” said Kligman, the types said.
Researchers were able to return Fosil to 209.2 million years ago – an unusual exact date, the cligma, where there is a volcanic ashes where there is fossils. The find helps fill a space in the pre-planning fossil record of the recent tiastic copy. Kligman, very few pterosaur fossils are available. Once you are unarmed, the fragile bones are poorly kept poor, so Pterosaur fossils are often incomplete. They didn’t near where the fossils include tend to form.
Illustration by Brian ENGH
“This helps you understand what a pterosaur is and how it will be,” Kligman said.
Along with Pterosaur, one of the world’s oldest turtle fossils, including one of the world’s oldest amphibians and armored crocodile relatives, and one of the relatives of the evolutionary crocodile such as turtles and pterosaurs.