Still Waters Posted August 31, 2019 #1 Share Posted August 31, 2019 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? 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freetoroam Posted August 31, 2019 #2 Share Posted August 31, 2019 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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