The weathered fossil pieces include an aquatic marine reptile's limbs and backbone.
, before this finding, the only fossil record of this time period came from marine invertebrates in Texas.
The team now has "solid proof" that Jurassic bones can be discovered in Texas thanks to this newly uncovered specimen. “Folks, there are Jurassic vertebrates out there. We found some of them, but there’s more to be discovered that can tell us the story of what this part of Texas was like during the Jurassic,” said Steve May, a research associate at UT Austin’s Jackson School of Geosciences Museum of Earth History, who led the excavation work, in an official release.It is necessary to identify Jurassic-aged rocks in order to find Jurassic-aged fossils.
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