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Penn student identifies new species of dinosaur
Did You Know... that Andrew McDonald, a Penn Ph.D. student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science, has indentified a new species of dinosaur - Jeyawati rugoculus?
Jeyawati, a duck-billed dinosaur, is an herbivore which lived during the Late Cretaceous whose remains were found in the Zuñi Basin in New Mexico.
McDonald's article about the identification was published in the May issue of Vertebrate Paleontology. While an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska, he began examining the bones that were found as part of the Zuñi Basin Paleontological Project and completed the project with Peter Dodson, professor of anatomy and paleontology in Penn's Vet School and School of Arts and Sciences.
The specific name comes from Zuni for "grinding mouth" and the Latin for “wrinkle eye”.
For more information about the finding, please visit:
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/research/061010.html
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