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Meet Adratiklit boulahfa, World’s Earliest Known Stegosaur | Paleontology | Sci-News.com
Paleontologists in Morocco have found fossil fragments from a new genus and species of stegosaur that walked the Earth about 168 million years ago (Jurassic period).
Stegosaurs were a widespread group with species of the armored (thyreophoran) dinosaurs found in Southern Africa, North America, Asia and Europe.
But the newly-discovered stegosaur, named Adratiklit boulahfa, is the first of the group to hail from North Africa.
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Always something new in paleontology.
Paleontologists in Morocco have found fossil fragments from a new genus and species of stegosaur that walked the Earth about 168 million years ago (Jurassic period).
Stegosaurs were a widespread group with species of the armored (thyreophoran) dinosaurs found in Southern Africa, North America, Asia and Europe.
But the newly-discovered stegosaur, named Adratiklit boulahfa, is the first of the group to hail from North Africa.
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Always something new in paleontology.