Sentences with phrase «jaw fragments»

This idea was based on many specimens of tiny teeth and a few jaw fragments.

The size and shape of the upper jaw fragment suggests that the creature was about 4 meters long, with some other species in the Helicoprion genus measuring almost twice that length.

They are, in fact, jaw fragments of giant, previously unrecognised ichthyosaurs.

Among the fossils unearthed was a tiny jaw fragment with big implications.

Eomys quercyi, an extinct rodent that lived about 26 million years ago, has been known only from teeth and jaw fragments found in the fossil droppings of ancient birds of prey.

Paleontologists have only a pair of lower jaw fragments to go on, the larger of which (pictured above) is almost 11 inches long.

Lothagam Man: the Lothagam fossil is a small jaw fragment with one tooth, about 5 to 6 million years old.

We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»

For now, the nearest we got was in 2001, when researchers described the partial skull and jaw fragments of a 6 - to 7 - million - year - old hominin from the deserts of northern Chad.

Most fossils from more than 40 known extinct ape species amount to no more than jaw fragments or a few isolated teeth.

This puts paid to the long - standing view, based on tiny teeth and some jaw fragments, that early mammals were primitive, shrew - like insectivores.

The jaw fragment suggests our species began traveling abroad 50,000 years earlier than previously thought