Ancient horse and camel fossils unearthed in Oklahoma
Time-Life mass “North America”. © Jay Matternes
The fossilized remains of horses in addition to camels dating dorsum upward to 12 1 chiliad m years conduct maintain been unearthed inwards Oklahoma.
The fossils were unearthed past times a sharp-eyed heavy-machine operator working for a Houston, Texas-based petroleum firm, Apache Corp.
The worker had scraped away nigh twenty feet of globe inwards July inwards the Packsaddle Wildlife Management Area, simply due north of the Canadian River inwards Ellis County, when he spied the fossils.
Experts were called in, amongst a squad of paleontologists in addition to archaeologists in addition to thus far uncovering xiii split upward pits containing fossil bones.
The Oklahoman paper reports that the fossils of extinct species engagement from v 1 chiliad m to 12 1 chiliad m years ago.
The highlight to engagement has been the unearthing of a well-preserved Equus caballus skull far tinier than its present-day descendant.
The remains are typical prey animals from the Late Miocene period.
The curator of vertebrate paleontology for the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Nicholas Czaplewski, said it could conduct maintain years to kind through the fossil discoveries.
The remains volition live on compared amongst known species whose fossil remains conduct maintain already been identified inwards the region. The novel finds may assist experts larn nigh the anatomy of existing species.
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