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New Fossil from Brazil Reveals Unexpected Diversity among Pre-Dinosaur Herbivores


Paleontologists in Brazil have identified a new genus and species of hyperodapedontine rhynchosaur -- an extinct lineage of beaked, herbivorous reptiles -- based on a partial skull and lower jaws recovered from Triassic rocks.

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