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Unusual Bonebed in Arizona Reveals North America’s Earliest-Known Pterosaur


Paleontologists have unearthed the fossilized jawbone of a new pterosaur species alongside hundreds of other fossils -- including one of the world’s oldest turtles -- at a remote bonebed in Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona, the United States.

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