Sentences with phrase «bone bed»

PTEROSAUR TROVE A bone bed in northwestern China with a rare collection of fossils of Hamipterus tianshanensis offers a glimpse into the early development of this pterosaur (illustrated) that lived during the Cretaceous Period.
Horner is best known for finding large skeletons, nesting colonies, and vast bone beds where herds of dinosaurs died, and his dig here has turned up a number of outstanding specimens, including eight Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons, one of which is the largest in the world.
Consider bone beds — sites where many fossils of the same dinosaur species have been unearthed.
Similar bone beds that include other species of metoposaurs have been found in what are now Africa, Europe, and North America — a hint that climate at the time was highly unpredictable and prone to lengthy droughts.
Fossils unearthed from a 30 - to 40 - centimeter - thick bone bed in southern Portugal suggest the creature was more than 2 meters long, weighed as much as 100 kilograms, and had a broad flat head the size and shape of a toilet seat.
The new hypothesis helps paleontologists understand the setting of the quarry, and to begin to unravel the mystery that led to this unique, Allosaurus - dominated bone bed.
Unlike typical Jurassic bone beds, it is dominated by the famous predatory dinosaur Allosaurus.
«New data for old bones: How the famous Cleveland - Lloyd dinosaur bone bed came to be: Scientists have debated for decades the origin of the densest collection of Jurassic dinosaur bones; X-ray and chemical analyses by paleontologists begin to unravel the mystery.»
The excavation of the Allia Bay bone bed was funded by the National Geographic Society.
He hit pay dirt: His team found a bone bed containing at least three Teleocrater individuals, including a braincase and jawbone.
The 4 - square - meter area of the bone bed already excavated has yielded 10 skulls and hundreds of remains, suggesting that the creatures became concentrated in one area and then died when the lake they inhabited dried up, the researchers say.
Floodwaters from an intense storm may have swept away and buried hundreds of pterosaur eggs in this bone bed, along with the scattered remains of a few adults.
To that end, with the permission of the National Museums of Kenya, she gave them a fragment of a 4 - million - year - old fossil from a buffalo - like animal recovered in the excavation of a bone bed at Allia Bay, on the east side of Lake Turkana.
The excavation of the bone bed at the Allia Bay site, 261 - 1, East Turkana, in 1996.
A cross section of the bone bed can be seen passing diagonally from the centre of the image to the right hand corner.
Hominin fossils were also recovered from the same horizon in this bone bed.
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