Ancient Alligator Relative Lived Right After Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
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Ancient Alligator Relative Lived Right After Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct alligatorid that lived in what is now Colorado just a few hundred thousand years after the asteroid impact that wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs. The post Ancient Alligator Relative Lived Right After Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking Science News.
After the disaster: Only about 200,000 to 350,000 years after the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period, a former representative of the Alligatorinae, the subfamily of the alligators, lived in Colorado. The new species Mandrasuchus milleri thus closes a fossil gap and supports the assumption that fresh water ecosystems at that time were relatively well cushioned by the global crisis. Moab (U.S.A.). The asteroid impact about 66 mill…
Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct crocodile, called Mandrasuchus milleri, who lived in the region that now corresponds to Colorado, United States, about 200,000 to 350,000 years after the impact...
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The researchers believe M.milleri grew to about 2 meters in length and possibly engaged in burrowing. Fossils from the Coral Bluffs have been found at times encased in phosphate-rich rock nodules that can form around and preserve fossil remains.
Scientists have discovered in North America the remains of the oldest alligator 66 million years old. Read about how these reptiles survived the fall of an asteroid ᐅ TSN.ua (news 1+1).
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