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Lucy is the common name of AL 288-1, a partial skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis discovered by Donald Johanson's team at Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974 and dated to about 3.2 million years ago. The specimen preserves roughly 40 percent of the skeleton, including parts of the pelvis, legs, spine, ribs...
Orrorin tugenensis is an extinct primate from the late Miocene, known from fossils discovered in Kenya's Tugen Hills and dated to about six million years ago. The specimen catalogued as BAR 1000'00 is among the material associated with the species. Features of the femur have been interpreted as evid...
Lagerpeton chanarensis is a small archosaur known from the Middle to Late Triassic Chanares Formation of Argentina. It belongs to Lagerpetidae, a group of lightly built avemetatarsalians closely related to pterosaurs within the broader lineage that also includes dinosaurs. Its elongated hind limbs a...
Late Triassic lagerpetid dinosauriform from the Chinle Formation of the southwestern United States, one of several species that represent the closest known relatives of true dinosaurs.
Hypsilophodon foxii is a small ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous of the Isle of Wight, England, first formally described by Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869.
