The I.N.H.A. Staff Blog

Day: August 14, 2018

Rare triassic pterosaur discovered by BYU paleontologists

https://news.byu.edu/news/rare-triassic-pterosaur-discovered-byu-paleontologists When Brooks Britt, a geological sciences professor at BYU, searched through the latest Triassic sandstone samples in his lab, he expected to find bones of early crocodiles and dinosaurs. Instead, he discovered the bones of a new pterosaur specimen, now named Caelestiventus (heavenly wind) hanseni. Dating back more than 200 million years, it’s one of the earliest…