[Geology2] New skeletons from the Age of Dinosaurs answer century-old questions

New skeletons from the Age of Dinosaurs answer century-old questions
PhysOrg.com [USA], May 21, 2010

More than 100 years ago paleontologist E. D. Cope of "Dinosaur Wars"
fame found a few fragmentary bones of a reptile in the deserts of New
Mexico. He named the reptile Typothorax. A century later Typothorax,
which belongs to a group of reptiles called aetosaurs, remained
something of a mystery, known mainly from pieces of armor, a few limb
bones, and some sections of tail. Now, thanks to two remarkably complete
skeletons discovered by volunteers and described in the latest issue of
the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, paleontologists are finally
revealing what Typothorax really looked like, how large it was, how it
walked, and myriad other questions. Typothorax is also one of the last
large herbivores to evolve in the Late Triassic, before dinosaurs would
come to dominate the planet.

http://www.physorg.com/news193668452.html

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