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Rock that sat in Aussie school for years is fossil jackpot, scientists say

Toronto Sun 28 Mar 2025
No bones for the possible species have been discovered, but paleontologists used fossilized traces – footprints and trackways – to determine the animal was probably a small, three-toed herbivore.
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168-million-year-old plant-eating dinosaur fossil found in Morocco is oldest-ever

Interesting Engineering 19 Mar 2025
The fossil dates back approximately 168 million years to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic.  ... Unlike the previously abundant fossilized trackways, this body fossil provides anatomical details, which fills gaps in our knowledge. .
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Incredibly Rare 168-Million-Year-Old Fossil Is World's Oldest Cerapodan Ornithischian Dinosaur

IFL Science 17 Mar 2025
Before this, we had evidence that ornithopod dinosaurs had probably already evolved based on a few fossilized trackways, but this is the oldest body fossil that there is.Dr Susannah Maidment.
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