New Triassic Reptile From Arizona with claws on their tails

[Scylla]

New burrowing Drepanosaur discovered among Arizona's petrified Forrest

 

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-10-15/researchers-discover-fossils-of-new-species-in-arizona

[Tidgy's Dad]

Claws on their tails? Wow.

Clearly doing their best to dig down to the root of their problems. 

[Fossildude19]

Another link.

[Scylla]

Thanks Tim, that link was much more detailed! Better pictures too

[Bob Saunders]

National Park Service interns unearthed fossils of a bizarre 220-million-year-old reptile.

(CNN)-A peculiar, 220-million-year-old species of burrowing reptiles that evaded scientists has been found, fossilized. A team of National Park Service interns are credited with its discovery.

 

LINK

 

 

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[Oxytropidoceras]

National Park Service interns unearthed fossils

of a bizarre 220-million-year-old reptile

By Scottie Andrew, CNN, October 16, 2020

 

The paper is:

 

Jenkins, X.A., Pritchard, A.C., Marsh, A.D., Kligman, B.T.,

Sidor, C.A. and Reed, K.E., 2020. Using manual ungual

morphology to predict substrate use in the

Drepanosauromorpha and the description of a new species.

Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, p.e1810058.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

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