Sentences with phrase «caecilian fossils»
However, Small, Pardo, and Huttenlocker recently discovered two new caecilian fossils from the Triassic Period in central Colorado.
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Small fossils about 220 million years old found along steep red slopes in Colorado represent a near - relative of modern animals called caecilians, says vertebrate paleontologist Adam Huttenlocker of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Named Chinlestegophis jenkinsi, the new fossils act as a sort of «missing link,» connecting caecilians to stereospondyls, the most diverse amphibian group during the Triassic Period over 200 million years ago.
«Caecilians are hard to find in the fossil record because most are so small,» added Adam Huttenlocker, an assistant professor in the Department of Integrative Anatomical Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.