supported by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS) No.153105~~
supported by IVPP;the Wuhan Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources
Some strange creatures cropped up in the wake of one of Earth’s biggest mass extinctions 252 million years ago.In 2014,scientists discovered a bizarre fossil–a crocodile-sized seadwelling reptile,Atopodentatus unicu...