Possible oldest dinosaur discovered by Fred Bervoets by Fred
Bervoets A team of paleontologist of the Field Muesum have
discovered what appear to be the oldest dinosaur fossils ever
found in a 225 to 230 million years old (from Middle to Late
Triassic) layer in Madagascar. The fossilized remains consists
of jaw bones from two unknown plant-eating prosauropod
dinosaurs. The paleontologists of the Field Museum where working
in Madagascar during four separate expeditions from 1996 to
1999, the team discovered the exquisitely preserved remains of
eight other prehistoric animals of the same age, providing a
freezeframe picture of life during the earliest days of
dinosaurs and mammals - a picture that has been largely obscured
until now. The fossils were found by John J. Flynn, MacArthur
Curator and Chair of the Department of Geology at The Field
Museum; William F. Simpson, Collections Manager, Fossil
Vertebrates, The Field Museum; J. Michael Parrish, of Northern
Illinois University; Berthe Rakotosamimanana, of the