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Re: [dinosaur] Ozimek, new gliding protorosaurian from Late Triassic of Poland (free pdf)




I'm not sure this post went through for everyone that first time.

Here are some links to news stories in Polish with lots of photos of a model of a gliding Ozimek:


http://wyborcza.pl/1,75400,21043431,naukowcy-z-pan-znalezli-najstarszego-latajacego-gada-nazywa.html

http://www.nto.pl/wiadomosci/opole/a/ozimek-volans-sensacyjne-znalezisko-w-krasiejowie-zdjecia,11514266/

http://radio.opole.pl/100,179059,ozimek-ma-swojego-dinozaura-ozimek-volans-to-naj

http://www.rmf24.pl/nauka/news-ozimek-volans-szybujacy-gad-z-triasu-moze-pretendowac-do-rol,nId,2314095

http://www.newsweek.pl/nauka/niezwykle-odkrycie-polskich-paleontologow-ozimek-volans,artykuly,401241,1.html

On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 8:28 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

A new paper in the latest issue of open access Acta Palaeontologica Polonica:

Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (4) 2016
http://app.pan.pl/issue/issue/current.html

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Jerzy Dzik and Tomasz Sulej (2016)
An early Late Triassic long-necked reptile with a bony pectoral shield and gracile appendages.
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 61 (4), 2016: 805-823 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.00276.2016
http://app.pan.pl/article/item/app002762016.html
http://app.pan.pl/archive/published/app61/app002762016.pdf



Several partially articulated specimens and numerous isolated bones of Ozimek volans gen. et sp. nov., from the late Carnian lacustrine deposits exposed at Krasiejów in southern Poland, enable a reconstruction of most of the  skeleton. The unique character of the animal is its enlarged plate-like coracoids presumably fused with sterna. Other aspects of the skeleton seem to be comparable to those of the only known specimen of Sharovipteryx mirabilis from the latest Middle Triassic of Kyrgyzstan, which supports interpretation of both forms as protorosaurians. One may expect that the pectoral girdle of S. mirabilis, probably covered by the rock matrix in its only specimen, was similar to that of O. volans gen. et sp. nov. The Krasiejów material shows sharp teeth, low crescent scapula, three sacrals in a generalized pelvis (two of the sacrals being in contact with the ilium) and curved robust metatarsal of the fifth digit in the pes, which are unknown in Sharovipteryx. Other traits are plesiomorphic and, except for the pelvic girdle and extreme elongation of appendages, do not allow to identify any close connection of the sharovipterygids within the Triassic protorosaurians.