Rare and significant fossils have been discovered at Lake Powell in Utah's Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.
The National Park Service said a field carew recently discovered "extremely rare fossils" while documenting fossil tracksites at Lake Powell a Glen Canyon National Recreation Area in Utah.
Park rangers said the fossils were the first tritylodontid bonebed found in the Navajo Sandstone. They included bones and teeth. The discovering has been described as "one of the more important fossil vertebrate discoveries in the United States this year." Rangers believe it will also shed light on the fossil history that was exposed on the changing shorelines of Lake Powell. It's believed the fossils were from early herbivorous mammal-relatives from the Early Jurassic era, which was approximately 180 million years ago.
The fossils will then become part of the Glen Canyon NRA museum which will be housed at the Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah.
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