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Paul Callistus Sereno (born October 11, 1957) is a professor of paleontology at the University of Chicago who has discovered several new dinosaur species on several continents, including at sites in Inner Mongolia, Argentina, Morocco and Niger. [1]
Paul Sereno The Gobero archaeological site , dating to approximately 8000 BCE, is the oldest known graveyard in the Sahara Desert . The site contains important information for archaeologists on how early humans adapted to a constantly changing environment.
It was discovered in 2000 on an expedition led by University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno. The type and only species is Eocarcharia dinops. [1] Its teeth were shaped like blades and were used for disabling live prey and ripping apart body parts.
A complete Herrerasaurus skull was found in 1988, by a team of paleontologists led by Paul Sereno. [4] Based on the new fossils, authors such as Thomas Holtz [ 27 ] and José Bonaparte [ 28 ] classified Herrerasaurus at the base of the saurischian tree before the divergence between prosauropods and theropods.
It was named and described by paleontologist Paul Sereno and colleagues in 1998, based on a partial skeleton from the Elrhaz Formation. Suchomimus's long and shallow skull, similar to that of a crocodile, earns it its generic name, while the specific name Suchomimus tenerensis alludes to the locality of its first remains, the Ténéré Desert.
Kaprosuchus is known from a nearly complete skull 507 mm in length in which the lower jaw measured 603 mm long, total length is estimated to be around 2.42–3.77 m (7 ft 11 in – 12 ft 4 in) long. [3]
It is where remains of Sarcosuchus imperator, popularly known as SuperCroc, were found (by Paul Sereno in 1997, for example), including vertebrae, limb bones, armor plates, jaws, and a nearly complete 6 feet (1.8 m) skull. Dinosaurs of Elrhaz formation The claw of Spinosaur from the formation. Gadoufaoua is very hot and dry.
It was defined as a clade in 1998 by Paul Sereno [21] and redefined by him in 2005 as the stem clade consisting of Heterodontosaurus tucki and all species more closely related to Heterodontosaurus than to Parasaurolophus walkeri, Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis, Triceratops horridus, or Ankylosaurus magniventris. [22]