Researchers have unearthed a nearly complete skeleton of one of the world’s oldest dinosaurs.
. When the continents were gathered together to form Pangaea, those sites all lay at about 50° south, explains Diego Pol, a paleontologist at the Egidio Feruglio Paleontology Museum in Argentina who was not part of the team. Earth was warmer at the time, lacking icecaps, and climate models suggest that latitude on Pangaea had a wet, temperate climate with hot summers and cool, rainy winters.
The team also found fragments of bones from a large carnivorous dinosaur called a herrerasaurid, the first discovered in Africa. And it unearthed an array of other animal fossils, too: cynodonts, which are mammal relatives; armored crocodilian relatives called aetosaurs; and archaic reptiles called rhynchosaurs. Paleontologists have found similar creatures along the same climate band in South America and India.
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