A 240-million-year-old fossil disappeared for 20 years, then its rediscovery revealed a new reptile related to dinosaurs and crocodiles
- PC: AI GeneratedA fossil found in southern Brazil is giving researchers a closer look at the reptiles that lived near the beginning of the archosaur lineage, the group that would eventually include dinosaurs and crocodile-line animals.
- The animal has been named ‘Silescelida acristata’ and is identified as an early-diverging eucrocopodan archosauriform from the Middle Triassic.
- A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reportsnotes that the specimen includes a left scapula, a right ilium and a left femur that were found together and are considered to belong to the same individual.
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- PC: AI GeneratedA fossil found in southern Brazil is giving researchers a closer look at the reptiles that lived near the beginning of the archosaur lineage, the group that would eventually include dinosaurs and crocodile-line animals.
- The animal has been named ‘Silescelida acristata’ and is identified as an early-diverging eucrocopodan archosauriform from the Middle Triassic.
- A recent study published in the journal Scientific Reportsnotes that the specimen includes a left scapula, a right ilium and a left femur that were found together and are considered to belong to the same individual.
Sources: Times of India