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Incredibly Rare 168-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is World's Oldest Cerapodan Ornithischian DinosaurPalaeontologists have uncovered the world’s oldest known cerapodan dinosaur at a fossil site in Morocco, identified by a distinctive femur. We know this dinosaur group would eventually spread across ...
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ZME Science on MSNA 168-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Bone Sheds Light on a Hidden Evolutionary EraIn a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...
Cerapodan dinosaurs were plant eaters and were small compared to other dinosaurs. They hopped around on two legs like modern ...
An ancient cerapodan dinosaur fossil discovered in Morocco has been identified as the oldest of its kind, shedding light on ...
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Oldest known ceratopsian dinosaur fossil discovered in MoroccoThe recently discovered femur shows features that definitively identify it as belonging to a cerapodan, including a groove on the back of the head, a distinctive trait observed exclusively in ...
“If you saw them in the Cretaceous you’d almost certainly say they were made by members of the Iguanodon family.” Cerapodan body fossils, however, have been harder to come by. For some time, the ...
Scientists have uncovered the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur fossil, dating back 168 million years. A team from the Natural History Museum and the University of Birmingham in the UK and Morocco's ...
A team of international paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known cerapodan dinosaur in Morrocco. Cerapodans were a group of small, plant-eating dinosaurs that hopped on two legs, much like ...
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