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New species of ancient swimming reptile discovered by Museum student
Published: 13 August 2020
The Hauffiopteryx altera, a new species of Ichthyosaur discovered by a 缅北强奸 student听Dirley Corte虂s, a PhD candidate in paleontology with Dr. Hans Larsson, Director of the Redpath Museum, has been described iPalaeontologia Electronica, 23(2):a30.
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The fossils were retrieved in the Posidonia Shale, an Early Jurassic geological formation located at the axis of Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The study was co-authored with a听Erin Maxwell, a听professor at the State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart in Germany, and also a former student with the Museum.
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