Sentences with phrase «most vertebrate fossils»
Most vertebrate fossils are known from a very limited number of places on Earth, so Christian's goal of understanding the geographic complexity of extinction and recovery is a big one.
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«In Japan, many important vertebrate fossils have been discovered by amateurs because most of the land is covered with vegetation, and there are few exposures of fossil - bearing Cretaceous rocks.
Fossils suggest the most primitive jawed vertebrates used internal fertilization, not spawning
Although specimens of fishes, marine reptiles, non-avian dinosaurs, birds, and mammals of this age have all been recovered from this now - frozen continent, most fossils, especially those of land - living species, are fragmentary and poorly informative, and a number of major vertebrate groups that likely once lived in Antarctica (e.g., amphibians, crocodilians) have yet to be discovered at all.
The West Coast Fossil Park, the most prolific source of late tertiary vertebrate fossils in the world, and Saldanha Bay's ore harbour, where you'll find some of the world's largest ocean carriers, are also close by.