Ancient armoured animal leads to rethink of reptile evolutionary tree

A chunky, 1.5-metre-long armoured predator that lived some 250 million years in the past might upend our understanding of reptile evolution.

Fossils of the novel species – named Prosaurosphargis yingzishanensis, as a result of it was discovered within the Yingzishan quarry in Hubei province, China – had been unearthed in 2019. The rocks wherein the fossils had been discovered point out that the animal lived in salty lagoons. It was one of many bigger marine reptiles on Earth on the time, says Andrzej Wolniewicz on the Hefei …