Fossils of oddball crocodile relative found in Texas suburb
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National Geographic Society
National Geographic Partners
LLC
Scolomastax
the University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Arlington Archosaur Site
Laramidia
the Arlington Archosaur Site
the University of Tennessee
the University of Texas-Arlington
the National Geographic Society
Viridian
Cowboys
â Drumheller-Horton
the Dallas Paleontological Society
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Perot Museum of Nature and Science
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People
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Christopher Noto
Stephanie Drumheller-Horton
Derek Main
Art Sahlstein
â Noto
Deltasuchus
Soto
Groups
Appalachia
Physical locations
the Gulf of Mexico
North America
Appalachia
North America's
Asia
Places
Scolomastax
Jurassic Park
the Arlington Archosaur Site
Locations
Arlington
Texas
Dallas
Canada
Utah
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Summary
As the first paralligatorid ever found in Appalachia deposits, Scolomastax reinforces the notion that animals living in Asia and North America mixed and mingled in the early Cretaceous, before rising waters split North America in two.âThe cool thing about the Arlington Archosaur Site is that it's actually from both a time [and a place] that we don't find many fossils,â says study coauthor Stephanie Drumheller-Horton, a paleontologist at the University of Tennessee. Noto took over the project that same year, and he has been leading its study ever since with partial funding from the National Geographic Society.If you're picturing windswept badlands like the fossil dig site scenes from Jurassic Park, the Arlington Archosaur Site may throw you for a loop: It's located within Viridian, a large planned community in Arlington, Texas, a suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth area.âThe funny thing about [the site] is if you stand up and youâre facing the wall where all the fossils are coming out, and you turn around, in the distance you can actually see the Dallas Cowboys football stadium,â Drumheller-Horton says.Odd though it may sound, the proximity to a major urban area has helped paleontologists protect and study the site.
As said here by Michael Greshko