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Beelzebufo (/ b iː ˌ ɛ l z ɪ ˈ b juː f oʊ / or / ˌ b iː l z ə ˈ b juː f oʊ /) is an extinct genus of hyloid frog from the Late Cretaceous Berivotra and Maevarano Formations of Madagascar. [1] The type species is B. ampinga, and common names assigned by the popular media to B. ampinga include devil frog, [2] devil toad, [3] and the ...
Index fossils must have a short vertical range, wide geographic distribution and rapid evolutionary trends. Another term, "zone fossil", is used when the fossil has all the characters stated above except wide geographical distribution; thus, they correlate the surrounding rock to a biozone rather than a specific time period.
This big cat is found much more rarely than the contemporary Smilodon. Within the species itself, more fossil specimens are thought to represent males. [28] Bobcat [29] [12] Lynx rufus: Bobcats are rare compared to other cats at La Brea. Van Valkenburgh suggests that they may have lived at the fringe of the predator community. Cougar [15] [30 ...
Kermit the Frog meet Kermitops gratus, the most recent ancient amphibian to be identified after examination of a tiny fossilized skull that once sat unstudied in the Smithsonian fossil collection ...
Prior to 2008, fossils of D. spurensis were listed as the species D. haplocerus, until it was determined that D. haplocerus was a species name originally based on undiagnostic fossils. [13] D. smalli [18] Arizona [18] Sonsela? [13] A single lateral osteoderm. A desmatosuchin aetosaur which is very rare in the Chinle Formation.
With over 1 billion years of the planet’s history preserved in the Grand Canyon, many kinds of life are represented in the rocks there — but no dinosaurs.
Older fossils lay even deeper beneath the bone bed. These 8.9-million-year-old rocks included fossilized bones of fish and marine mammals. Experts also found teeth from juvenile megalodons and ...
Fossils of the Late Devonian-Permian fern-like fronds Pecopteris †Pecopteris †Pecopteris arborescens †Pentremites †Pentremites laminatus †Pentremites tulipaformis †Petalodus – tentative report †Pinnularia †Platyceras †Platycrinites †Rachis; Fossilized stump of the Carboniferous-Permian club moss relative Sigillaria ...