PORTAL:PALEONTOLOGY DYK 58

A life restoration of Lyddekerina

... that unlike other stereospondyl amphibians, the Triassic Lydekkerina (restoration pictured) lived entirely on land?
... that the extinct Miocene redwood, Sequoiadendron chaneyi, is the probable ancestor to the giant sequoias in California?
...that Terminonatator ponteixensis is the type and only species described for Terminonatator, a genus of elasmosaurid plesiosaur from Late Cretaceous of Saskatchewan, Canada?
... that the extinct winter-hazel species Corylopsis readae was described from a single Ypresian fossil?

A life restoration of Vancleavea

... that the Triassic reptile Vancleavea, which is specialized to live in the water, differs greatly from all other early archosauriforms?

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