Dicynodont Fossils Reveal 'Phantom' Mammal Coexisted With Dinosaurs

[Judi Lynn]

22 March 2018, 10:29 pm EDT By Charmagne Nojas Tech Times

Rediscovered remains from the collection of amateur paleontologist Alfred "Gogga" Brown have confirmed that tusked mammals with turtle-like beaks once lived alongside the dinosaurs.

These herbivores known as dicynodonts are actually older than their reptilian counterparts. They have been thought to exist before the dawn of the Mesozoic Era some 260 million years ago, and have been assumed as extinct 50 million years after during the close of the Triassic Period.

However, this estimation was challenged in the 1950s when some "phantom" footprints belonging to the 5-fingered creature were uncovered next to that of a dinosaur's in South Africa.

Such piece of evidence suggests that dicynodonts likely survived beyond the Triassic Period but like the rest of Brown's works, they never received any recognition.

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