New Triassic Archosaur Species Identified in Tanzania paleontology science
. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto.lived in what is now Tanzania during the Middle Triassic period, some 240 million years ago.
“It would have been a large and terrifying predator, which roamed across Tanzania some 240 million years ago,” said University of Birmingham’s“At around 5 m long, it’s one of the largest predators that we know of from this period.”, a geological formation in southern Tanzania, in 1963. From these, Professor Butler and his colleagues were able to identify several distinctive features that set it apart from other archosaurs found in the Manda Beds.
These included a large skull, more than 75 cm in length, and a particularly large nostril, as well as a notably narrow lower jaw and strong variation in the sizes of the teeth at the front of the upper jaws.
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