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FOSSILS ET AL
New species of dinosaurs discovered
A newly located dinosaur species that roamed North America over two hundred million years ago suggests that dinosaurs populated the northern hemisphere hundreds of thousands of years in advance than previously conceived by way of paleontologists.
A new analysis of these fossils unearthed identified this as an undiscovered sort of dinosaur and dated them at around 230 million years old. The age of these fossils makes Ahvaytum bahndooiveche the oldest recognised Laurasian dinosaur. Excitingly, this additionally shows this reptile existed in Laurasia at around the same time because the earliest recognised dinosaurs had been roaming Gondwana, the southern location of Pangea. Before this discovery, scientists had the idea that dinosaurs emerged in Gondwana millions of years before they spread to Laurasia.
“We have, with those fossils, the oldest equatorial dinosaur inside the globe — it’s also North America’s oldest dinosaur,” group co-chief and University of Wisconsin Geology Museum research scientist Dave Lovelace said in a press launch. The findings are posted in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.
