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HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) — Its full name is “Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis,” but you can call it “T-Mac” for short. We’re sure of that because we got permission from someone who should know: Dr. Steven Jasinski, a paleontologist at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, who is a co-author of the new report that identified T-Mac as […]
Fossils of an extinct and previously unknown species of painted turtle were discovered at the ancient Gray Fossil Site in eastern Tennessee. The fossil was found and determined to be a new species by Harrisburg University professor Steven Jasinski. It is named Chrysemys corniculata for the distinctive horn-like points on its shell.
Dr. Steven Jasinski, a professor at the Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, named and described the new fossil species of turtle Chrysemys corniculata.
The Gray Fossil Site, overseen by the Don Sundquist Center of Excellence in Paleontology at East Tennessee State University, preserves a 5-million-year-old ecosystem once home to rhinos, mastodons, red pandas
It’s called Bisticeratops froeseorum, part of a growing, diverse group of horned dinosaurs that lived in the Four Corners region. The paleontologists who identified it say knowing about these diverse dinosaur species and how they lived – or died – in the ensuing mass-extinction is an important lesson to modern-day humans.