Brazil experts find fossils of pre-dinosaur creature

[Judi Lynn]

Brazil experts find fossils of pre-dinosaur creature
(AFP) – 1 day ago

SAO PAULO — Brazilian paleontologists announced Tuesday they discovered the well-preserved and near-complete fossils of a pre-dinosaur predator that lived some 238 million years ago.

The creature, a Prestosuchus chiniquensis, was about seven meters (22 feet) long, weighed 900 kilos (one ton) and lived in the Triassic Period (250 to 200 million years ago), paleontologists from the Lutheran University of Brazil said.

A team led by paleontologist Sergio Furtado Cabreira and biologist Lucio Roberto da Silva found the fossils in the town of Dona Francisca, some 260 kilometers (160 miles) from Porto Alegre, the capital of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul.

"It is something that we could never imagine -- the quality of preservation and the size of the fossils are sensational," said Da Silva in a university press statement.

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Prestosuchus chiniquensis

[Blue_Tires]

1. i'm always amazed at these remarkable finds...

[Angry Dragon]

2. 250 million years??

I do understand how they could say that when the earth is only about 6000 years old.


:-)

[gtar100]

3. Those were such simpler times back then...

sigh... So much promise and so much time to work things out.