Posts Tagged ‘phantom’

WFS News:60-year-old paleontological mystery of a ‘phantom’ dicynodont

@WFS,World Fossil Society,Riffin T Sajeev,Russel T Sajeev A new study has re-discovered fossil collections from a 19th century hermit that validate ‘phantom’ fossil footprints collected in the 1950s showing dicynodonts coexisting with dinosaurs. Before the dinosaurs, around 260 million years ago, a group of early mammal relatives called dicynodonts were the most abundant vertebrate land […]