This discovery of fossils of a crocodile ancestor dating back 250 to 200 million years challenges scientists.

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This discovery of fossils of a crocodile ancestor dating back 250 to 200 million years challenges scientists.

According to the researchers, this discovery supports that this group of hominins diversified rapidly after the mass extinction at the “end-Permian.” strike Nevada, USA. Researchers have discovered, in the Triassic Favret Formation (a geological formation dating back to the Triassic period, 250 to 200 million years ago), a new species of crocodile ancestor that may have evolved in this geological region during the Mesozoic Era, during the Midd…