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Tiny Fanged Dinosaur

Tiny Fanged Dinosaur . By: Mikayla . Who. Paul Sereno . University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno. What. Pegomastax Africanus is a newly classified dinosaur species. It’s features are a short, parrot-shaped beak, a pair of stabbing canines and tall teeth for slicing plants.

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Tiny Fanged Dinosaur

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  1. Tiny Fanged Dinosaur By: Mikayla

  2. Who Paul Sereno University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno

  3. What Pegomastax Africanus is a newly classified dinosaur species. It’s features are a short, parrot-shaped beak, a pair of stabbing canines and tall teeth for slicing plants.

  4. Where Paul Sereno studied the fossils at Harvard University. The species would have lived along forested rivers in Southern Africa.

  5. When The article was posted on October 4 2012. The fossils of the bizarre creature where found in the 1960s The would have lived around the time when the supercontinent Pangaea had begun to split into the northern and southern landmasses.

  6. Why/How Paul Sereno makes most of his dinosaur discoveries digging the rock and sand of Africa but he found this going through specimens stored in a library at Harvard.

  7. Extra info • This newly classified dinosaur lived about 200 million years ago. • It is part of the Heterodontosaurus family • The pint-sized dinosaur measured approximately 0.6 meters from head to tail and weighed less than a house cat. • Kingdom:AnimaliaPhylum:ChordataClass:Reptiliaclade:DinosauriaOrder:OrnithischiaFamily:HeterodontosauridaeSubfamily:HeterodontosaurinaeGenus:PegomastaxType species:Pegomastax africanus

  8. Sources • http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/10/04/new-dinosaur-species.html • http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121003-new-dinosaur-species-fanged-sereno-science/ • http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/national/pegomastax-africanus-dinosaur-paul-sereno-university-of-chicago-finds-new-dinosaur-family-member

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