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The trove of unearthed fossils in a 50-foot thick slab of limestone took three years to excavate, and revealed now-extinct marine life as large as a thalattosaur of about 10 feet in length, according to the University of Bristol in the UK.
PHOTOS: Huge Discovery Of 20,000 Fossils Sheds Light On Life After Mass Extinction The Huffington Post 2010
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I'm sure we would have found a way to overfish the thalattosaur had it survived the volcanic explosions.
Lunch Room Chatter: Crankshaft cuisine, anyone? Tim Carman 2010
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Other thalattosaur discoveries have been made in British Columbia, Canada, as well as in Nevada and the Alps, though the best finds have been made in China, he said.
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Unlike most thalattosaur discoveries, which are fossilized remnants of individual bones and bone fragments, this specimen appeared to be a nearly full skeleton.
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Unlike most thalattosaur discoveries, which are fossilized remnants of individual bones and bone fragments, this specimen appeared to be a nearly full skeleton.
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Other thalattosaur discoveries have been made in British Columbia, Canada, as well as in Nevada and the Alps, though the best finds have been made in China, he said.
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The nearly complete fossilized skeleton is of a thalattosaur, a long-tailed sea creature that plied warm, shallow waters in the early days of dinosaurs and became extinct at the end of the Triassic period some 200 million years ago.
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The nearly complete fossilized skeleton is of a thalattosaur, a long-tailed sea creature that plied warm, shallow waters in the early days of dinosaurs and became extinct at the end of the Triassic period some 200 million years ago.
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There are only about a dozen full thalattosaur specimens in the world, Baichtal said.
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There are only about a dozen full thalattosaur specimens in the world, Baichtal said.
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