Sentences with phrase «several partial skeletons»

Researchers examined several partial skeletons of Xenicibis xympithecus, an extinct wading bird about the size of a large chicken that lived some 10,000 years ago.

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Several paleontologists took issue with his team's reconstruction of the dinosaur, which combined the new partial skeleton with earlier fragmentary finds of specimens that differed in size, as well as data from Stromer's surviving notes.

There are six skulls and several hundred partial skeletons of this new dinosaur at the Kulinda locality.

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).