Ancient Crocodile Relative Built for Speed Found in England
TL;DR
A 215-million-year-old crocodylomorph fossil unearthed in Gloucestershire has been identified as a new genus and species, Galahadosuchus jonesi, revealing a slender, upright, cursorial predator built for land speed rather than swimming and expanding our view of Late Triassic crocodile diversity ahead of the Triassic–Jurassic extinction.
Topics:sciencearchaeology#archaeology#crocodilerelatives#galahadosuchusjonesi#gloucestershire#paleontology#triassic
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