Sentences with phrase «pterosaur discovered»
This is the smallest pterosaur discovered from the Late Cretaceous (Kreh - TAY - shius)-- and by a lot, notes Elizabeth Martin - Silverstone.
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She soon discovered more, including plesiosaurs, fish, invertebrates and a pterosaur, England's first.
While working in Mexico, paleontologist Eberhard Frey of the Natural History Museum in Karlsruhe, Germany, discovered the footprints of a pterosaur with a wingspan of at least 59 feet — larger than that of a modern fighter jet.
Although most pterosaur tracks show the animals walking on all fours, the first prints in the newly discovered tracks are of the rear limbs only.
Based on fossils discovered so far, it's known that toothed pterosaurs are generally abundant during the Cretaceous in Asia, Europe and South America.
«New North American pterosaur is a Texan, but flying reptile's closest cousin is English: New species marks only the third toothed pterosaur identified from North America's Cretaceous — each one discovered in North Texas.»
Newly discovered pterosaur fossils suggest a smaller species of the dinosaur order that could have implications for the extinction that took place at the end of the Cretaceous period.
And in April, scientists discovered fossils belonging to the world's earliest and most primitive pterosaur, a 163 million - year - old find.
Some 60 genera of pterosaurs have been discovered, ranging in size from that of a small bird to a wingspan of more than 30 feet.
The first pterosaur fossil was discovered in the late Jurassic Solnhofen limestone in 1784, and since then 29 other kinds of pterosaurs have been found in the Solnhofen site.
But in recent years, scientists have discovered specimens that suggest pterosaurs grew larger as they evolved.