Yes, see if you can guess the connection between these two fossils.
5th Palaeontological Virtual Congress: a bony lesion in an apatosaur femur
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Here’s a short post on another 5PVC presentation: Raber et al. (2025) on a
musculoskeletal lesion in an apatosaur femur. At the Utah Field House in
Vernal,...
2 weeks ago
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Are they two animals bearing a pair of lateral processes on their heads?
The vertebrate seems a juvenile procolophonid, am I right?
Hemm... "an owenettid" may be a better answer.
Saurodectes is both an insect and an owenettid!!!!! "Saurodectes" is another "invertebrate" name that kills a fossil reptile name (after Rahona, Ingenia, Nemegtia, Mononichus...) ? The owenettid on the left must change its name?
I apologise for writing 3 comments...
Wow that was quick! Yes you are correct, both were named Saurodectes.
For those naming new animal taxa, the website Nomenclator Zoologicus is indispensable for finding pre-occupied names.
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