Date: May 12, 2017
Source: University of
Pennsylvania
An ancient sink hole in eastern
Tennessee holds the clues to an important transitional time in the evolutionary
history of snakes. Among the fossilized creatures found there, according to a
new paper co-authored by a University of Pennsylvania paleontologist, is a new
species of snake that lived 5 million years ago.
Steven Jasinski, lead author of
the new study, is a doctoral student in Penn's Department of Earth and
Environmental Science in the School of Arts & Sciences and acting curator
of paleontology and geology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania. He is
completing his Ph.D. under Peter Dodson, a professor of paleontology in Arts
& Sciences and professor of anatomy in the School of Veterinary Medicine at
Penn.
The fossils come from the Gray
Fossil Site near East Tennessee State University, where Jasinski and co-author
David Moscato pursued their master's degrees.
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