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This article records new taxa of every kind of fossil archosaur that are scheduled to be described during 2024, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to the paleontology of archosaurs that will be published in 2024.
Because humans have encountered fossils for millennia, paleontology has a long history both before and after becoming formalized as a science. This article records significant discoveries and events related to paleontology that occurred or were published in the year 2024. 2024 in science. 2023.
Mar 20, 2020 · The tarsus of archosaurs – crocodilians, birds, non-avian dinosaurs and several other extinct clades – and their most immediate precursors has been one of the most deeply studied anatomical...
Jul 26, 2023 · July 26, 2023. Source: American Museum of Natural History. Summary: Researchers have described a new species of armored reptile that lived near the time of the first appearance of dinosaurs.
Reptiles in general. Cawthorne, Whiteside & Benton (2024) describe Late Triassic reptile fossils from the Emborough, Batscombe and Highcroft quarries (Somerset, United Kingdom ), including fossil material of a new crocodylomorph taxon similar to Saltoposuchus and other loricatan fossils, an ilium of Pachystropheus rhaeticus (interpreted by the ...
Jul 26, 2023 · With bony plates on its backbone, this archosaur fossil reveals that armor was a boomerang trait in the story of dinosaur and pterosaur evolution: the group's ancestors were armored, but this ...
July 26 2023. This photo shows the fossilized cervical vertebra and overlaying osteoderms of the new archosaur species Mambachiton fiandohana. Credit: Sterling, et. al. Researchers have described...
