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South African Fossil Reveals New Species of Early Sauropodomorph Dinosaur


Early sauropodomorph skulls from the Late Triassic are scarce; a newly described one from South Africa’s Eastern Cape belongs to a previously unknown species: Nyana rooiwalensis.

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