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A Smithsonian-led team of researchers have discovered North America's oldest known pterosaur, the winged reptiles that lived ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...
Smithsonian scientists have uncovered North America’s oldest known pterosaur from a 209-million-year-old bonebed in Arizona’s ...
Paleontologists have uncovered in Arizona a Triassic treasure trove of fossils dating back 209 million years ago.
The pterosaur’s jawbone with teeth came from a remote area in northeastern Arizona’s Petrified Forest National Park, Smithsonian officials said. The site also contained numerous other fossils from ...
The team named the pterosaur the Eotephradactylus mcintireae, which means “ash-winged dawn goddess.” The species name ...
Scientists identify the oldest flying reptile in North America, discovered in Arizona and dating back 209 million years.