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Here goes the
Translation:
"Fossils of Rio Grande do Sul
may be the oldest ever found in the world
Bones of three animals with more
than 235 millions of years old have been found in Dona Francisca
Animal Fossils found in a
paleontological site of Dona Francisca's city, in the central region of Rio
Grande do Sul, may be the oldest dinosaur remains of the world. The remains of
three animals were shown this wednesday by a group of researchers of the
Zoobotanical Foundation of Rio Grande do Sul coordinated by the paleontologist
Jorge Ferigolo. In two ocasions, were collected in the site two maxillaries, a
fragment of a mandible, two skulls and part of a third one, a column's fragment
and another from a limb. The material belongs to at least three individuals of
the same species. The question is now to deffine it.
For the specialists
(researchers), there are two possibilities: or the pieces belong to a dinosaur
with primitive characteristics, or to a thecodont (precursor of the dinosaurs)
with evolved characteristics. Even with the uncertainity, it's already known
that the animals lived in the Dona Francisca's region in the Medium Triassic
period, between 235 and 240 millions of years ago. If these bones belong to a
primitive dinosaur, with characteristics ever found in any other paleontological
finds, the Rio Grande do Sul's fossils will be the oldest ever collected in the
world and a valuable font to show the evolution of these animals. To diminish
the doubt and deffine the fossils' species, will be needed a deep study of the
skeletons shape, what means many months of work. After, there will be at least
two years of investigation until the first conclusions be
published.
Francini
Ledur"
There's a bigger picture at: http://www.clicrbs.com.br/rbs/image/103315.jpg
Regards,
Marcel
Bertolucci
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