The creature was about the size of a Labrador dog and has been named Nyasasaurus parringtoni after southern Africa's Lake Nyasa, today called Lake Malawi, and Cambridge University's Rex Parrington, who collected the specimen at a site near the lake in the 1930s.
"It was a case of looking at the material with a fresh pair of eyes," Paul Barrett
from the Natural History Museum, who worked on the study, told Reuters.
"This closes a gap in the fossil record and pushes back the existence
of dinosaurs."
It is pretty cool that a fossil found in the 30s and studied in the 50s finally enters the fossil record in 2012. I think a fresh set of eyes need to go over more findings from the past. Maybe even more knowledge can be uncovered from that sort of thing.
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