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Buried for 209 million years, a tiny flying reptile and its ancient neighbors just emerged from Arizona’s Triassic past.
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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 ...
A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...
Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.
Jaw, wing bone, and tooth of Eotephradactylus mcintireae (209.2 Ma) reveal a floodplain ecosystem with fish, giant amphibians, and early turtles before the end-Triassic mass extinction.
Scientists identify the oldest flying reptile in North America, discovered in Arizona and dating back 209 million years.
In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...
The remains of the pterosaur, roughly the size of a small seagull, and the other creatures were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park, a place famous for producing fossils of plants and animals ...
An artist's depiction of a landscape from 209 million years ago at Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, based on fossils of plants and animals ...