1. The Original Highfliers.
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Perkins, Sid
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COPROLITES , *TREE-rings , *FOOTPRINTS , *RANGE of motion of joints - Abstract
If a coprolite can be linked to the creature that made it, any contents can be reasonably identified as a part of the diet, says Martin Qvarnström, a vertebrate paleontologist at Uppsala University in Sweden. "Some pterosaurs looked like creatures from your nightmares", says Brian Andres, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Sheffield in England. S. taylori had slender limbs, small hands and straight claws, all of which point to a ground-dwelling creature, says Davide Foffa, a vertebrate paleontologist at National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh. Its fossils were unearthed from limestone rocks laid down as sediment sometime between 157 million and 152 million years ago in what is now Germany, says David Martill, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Portsmouth in England. [Extracted from the article]
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- 2023