12-Foot Devonian Aquatic Predator (Hyneria lindae) Redescribed

[Oxytropidoceras]

25 Years of Fossil Collecting Yields Clearest 

Picture of Extinct 12-Foot Aquatic Predator, 

Drexel University, May 8, 2018

https://www.delval.edu/news/25-years-of-fossil-collecting-yields-clearest-picture-yet-of-extinct-12-foot-aquatic-predator

https://www.rdmag.com/news/2018/05/25-years-fossil-collecting-yields-clearest-pictureextinct-12-foot-aquatic-predator

https://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2018/05/25-years-fossil-collecting-yields-clearest-picture-yet-extinct-12-foot-aquatic-predator

 

The paper is:

 

Daeschler, E.B. and Downs, J.P., 2018. New description 

and diagnosis of Hyneria lindae (Sarcopterygii, 

Tristichopteridae) from the Upper Devonian Catskill 

Formation in Pennsylvania, USA. Journal of Vertebrate 

Paleontology, p. e1448834.

 

The abstract of this page can be found at;

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2018.1448834

 

A related paper is:

 

Cressler, W.L., Daeschler, E.B., Slingerland, R. and 

Peterson, D.A., 2010. Terrestrialization in the Late 

Devonian: a palaeoecological overview of the Red 

Hill site, Pennsylvania, USA. Geological Society, 

London, Special Publications, 339(1), pp. 111-128.

https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/geol_facpub/8/

https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C19&q=Hyneria+lindae+devonian&btnG=&httpsredir=1&article=1008&context=geol_facpub

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[exasperatus2002]

Just saw this published.https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/05/180507153124.htm

[Peat Burns]

Cool.  Thanks for posting 

[Fossildude19]

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