New reptile species found in quarry fossil

[Still Waters]

Fossil fragments left in a museum storeroom for decades have been identified as a new reptile species that was roaming about 200 million years ago.

Tiny armour plates, vertebrae and ribs were revealed inside a small rock put into a CT scanner to view it in 3D.

Experts believe the plates "put it on the crocodile side of the evolutionary tree" from the Late Triassic period.

It was found at a quarry in the Vale of Glamorgan in the 1950s.

It has been named Aenigmaspina pantyffynnonensis which refers, in part, to where it was found at Pant-y-ffynnon Quarry, which has been the site of other finds.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-49528904?

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2019.1645147?

[freetoroam]

Love how they describe a 200 million year old fossil as new reptile species, its more like a newly discovered old reptile species.

Why so long "Aenigmaspinapantyffynnonensis" ?

Do they really have to give it a paragraph as its name?