Word: chasmatosaurid
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This native plaster industry which has been in operation for sixty years, has presumably destroyed untold quantities of Triassic fossils. The specimen from the new chasmatosaurid genus was rescued from a rock pile destined for one of the kilns...
...fossils brought back from Brazil are of genera never before seen by man. One of these, a delicately boned lizard, about fifteen inches long, belongs to the order of thecodonts, whose evolution developed some of the greatest dinosaures. Another specimen, an oddly crushed reptile skull, is believed to be chasmatosaurid, belonging to a carnivorous alligator type, probably about twelve feet long. Other new animals were found in the cynodont, dicynodont, and rhynchosaur groups...
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