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Dicynodont fossils found in Tasmania

Adam Khor · 2019-09-05 00:04:29

Found this article on a newly discovered dicynodont from Tasmania. The article describes it as a "great survivor" yet it is about 250 million years old which doesn´t seem much surprising to me. http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8392144 For a moment I thought it was about the OTHER dicynodont from Australia, the…

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Found this article on a newly discovered dicynodont from Tasmania. The article describes it as a "great survivor" yet it is about 250 million years old which doesn´t seem much surprising to me.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8392144

For a moment I thought it was about the OTHER dicynodont from Australia, the one that lived during the Cretaceous a VERY LONG time after its relatives were gone in the rest of the world. Now that was impressive!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1691326/pdf/12803915.pdf

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