Penn graduate student describes new species of plant-eating dinosaur
Thursday, May 27, 2010 - 07:50
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of palaeontologists, including a University of Pennsylvania doctoral candidate, has described a new species of dinosaur based upon an incomplete skeleton found in western New Mexico. The new species, Jeyawati rugoculus, comes from rocks that preserve a swampy forest ecosystem that thrived near the shore of a vast inland sea 91 million years ago...