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Field Museum interns show a misfiled Mazon Creek fossil is a new 309-million-year-old amphibian relative
Two Field Museum interns named Jeanerpeton, a 309-million-year-old amphibian relative the museum had filed under a known species. A co-author says that species name has become a catchall in the collection, so more fossils filed under it may prove to be separate animals.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+15
- Incentives30
- Confidence70