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- Title
Palaeontology: The new mother lode.
- Authors
Dalton, Rex
- Abstract
The article reports on the efforts of paleontologists in Argentina to explore a trove of a 600-metre-high limestone of the backbone of a fossil sauropod. Researchers Diego Pol and Ignacio Escapa have spent years trekking the gravel trails in Chubut River valley to explores the areas that hold crucial clues to the explosion of evolutionary diversity in both dinosaurs and mammals. Meanwhile, the article also accounts other types of Middle Jurassic mammal that have emerged from the Cerro Cóndor quarries.
- Subjects
ARGENTINA; PALEONTOLOGY; SAURISCHIA; DINOSAURS; FOSSILS; JURASSIC paleoecology; QUARRIES &; quarrying; POL, Diego; ESCAPA, Ignacio
- Publication
Nature, 2008, Vol 455, Issue 7210, p153
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/455153a