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Madagascar’s fossil record gap has become narrower with a recent discovery of fossils belonging to a new species of dinosaur that lived in the island about 90 million years ago.
The dinosaur, which was baptized as Dahalokely Tokana (“Lonely small bandit” in Malagasy), fills a 95 million years gap that had haunted the island’s fossil records to this day.
The first new species of dinosaur unearthed on the Indian Ocean island in about a decade, Tokana, a carnivorous dinosaur, has been welcomed by paleontologists with great excitement of dinosaur
Before Tokana, no dinosaur fossils had ever been found in Madagascar from between 165 and 70 million years ago. This closes this gap by 20 million years, making the finding extremely significant, according to paleontologists.
http://www.counselheal.com/articles/5024…rd-gap.htm
2013-04-20 17:45:07