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Sunday, 29 March 2015

Car-Size Amphibians Found Fossilised In Mass Grave ( Triassic Portugal )

Car-Size Amphibians Found Fossilised In Mass Grave ( Triassic Portugal )

Paleontologists Uncover “Super Salamander” Boneyard
by Brian Switek, National Geographic
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/25/paleontologists-uncover-super-salamander-boneyard/

'Monster salamanders' found in fossilised mass grave
BBC News, March 23, 2015‎
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32016625

Prehistoric super salamander was top predator, fossils
suggest, Phys.Org, ‎Mar 23, 2015‎
http://phys.org/news/2015-03-prehistoric-super-salamander-predator-fossils.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossil-monstrous-fish-eating-amphibian-unearthed
http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/science-metoposaurus-algarvensis-fossils-giant-salamander-like-amphibian-portugal-02632.html

Brusatte, S. L., R. J. Butlerb, O. Mateusde, and
J. S. Steyerf, 2015, A new species of Metoposaurus
from the Late Triassic of Portugal and comments
on the systematics and biogeography of metoposaurid
temnospondyls. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.
Published online March 23, 2015.
doi: 10.1080/02724634.2014.912988
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2014.912988

Yours,

Paul H.

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