The newly identified species — a flying reptile that soared over the dinosaurs during the late Triassic Period — was unearthed by a team led by Ben Kligman, a UC Berkeley graduate and ...

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Where was the pterosaur discovered? The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona is known for producing fossils of plants and animals from the Triassic time period, Reuters reported.

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ...

The pterosaur is approximately 209 million years old, dating back to the late Triassic period.

Fun fact: What is a pterosaur? Pterosaurs were flying reptiles related to dinosaurs. They originated during the Triassic Period, about 235 million years ago, and went extinct 66 million years ago.

These fossils, which date back to the late Triassic period around 209 million years ago, preserve a snapshot of a dynamic ecosystem where older groups of animals, including giant amphibians and ...

These fossils, which date back to the late Triassic period around 209 million years ago, preserve a snapshot of a dynamic ecosystem where older groups of animals lived with evolutionary upstarts.

Taken at face value, the fossil record implies that pterosaurs suddenly originated in the later part of the Triassic period (around 215 million years ago), close to the equator on the northern ...

The discovery of the fossil in Greenland confirms previous ideas that docodontans originated in northern Europe during the Late Triassic period and then dispersed across Pangea in later eras ...

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