For the Paleontologist Ben Kligman, was the question: is a fragile jaw or not?
Other researchers also had questions about the fossils, along with thousands of other thousands through decades in a distant bone bed Petrify the national forest park Arizona. Some thought the bones could be mammal, Kligman told CBS News.
Now, their new research has the most popular North American reptile with Kligman and other paleontologists say that it is a “size of a small submarine.
Smithsonian-LED paper, Posted Monday In the procedure of the journal National Academy of Science, it is about the new discovery of fossil pterosaurs, along with others, seeing the late Triassic.
Ben Kligman 
Kligman remembers watching the jaw under a smithsonian microscope – where is it Peter Buck Postdoctoral classmate And the fossils were sent from, and run through the “Rolodex of the Triassic Anatomy of the Jaw, thinking that species could be a similar jaw. Jawbone wanted to fix the mystery of the delicate place.
Through the process of deleting the characteristics, Kligman said, and other researchers concluded: “Yes, this is certainly a very important discovery.”
The team appointed Pterosaur Eotephradactylus Mcintireae, which means “Ash Wing Goddess.” The name of the species Suzanne Mcitire made his finder, he volunteered in Smithsonian Fossilab For 18 years.
McIntire found fossil pterosaurs, brought from the petrified forest park, along with 1,200 fossils, bones, teeth, fish scales, and fossilized cops.
Volunteers establish each fossil, the points of interest to do other tasks for the conservation of flags and fossils. Mcintire discovered the jaw and his teeth were still in the bones, it eases to identify.
Ben Kligman 
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“It could sit on your shoulder, like a small sea bird,” Kligman said species.
Researchers were fossils 209.2 million years ago. A detailed date, Kligman said, fossils were found for the level of volcanic ashes. The discovery helps to meet a gap in the fossil record that deals with the end of the final tray. The pterosaur fossil exists very little, Kligman said. After the disappearance, the wrongly preserved fragile bones, fossil pterosaurs are so incomplete. They didn’t even Live close places that tend to form fossils.
Brian English illustration 
“It helps us understand what a pterosaur was and how they become,” Kligman said.
Along with the pterosaur, the study also determined other findings, including the world’s fossil turtles, giant amphibians and crocodiles living with evolutionary with frogs, turtles and pts.
