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| - thumb|390px El Icarosaurus era un tipo de reptil planeador que vivió en Norteamérica en el Triásico superior. Sus costillas, unidas por membranas de piel, formaban una especie de ala. Categoría:Reptiles Categoría:Reptiles voladores Categoría:Reptiles planeadores Categoría:Fauna del Triásico
- The only known fossil skeleton which definitely belongs to Icarosaurus was found in 1960 in North Bergen, New Jersey by Alfred Siefker, a teenager at the time, who stumbled upon the specimen while exploring a quarry. Seifker brought the specimen to scientists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York for identification and preparation.[3] It was described by paleontologist Edwin Harris Colbert in 1966, who named it Icarosaurus siefkeri in honor of Siefker.[2]
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| - The only known fossil skeleton which definitely belongs to Icarosaurus was found in 1960 in North Bergen, New Jersey by Alfred Siefker, a teenager at the time, who stumbled upon the specimen while exploring a quarry. Seifker brought the specimen to scientists at the American Museum of Natural History in New York for identification and preparation.[3] It was described by paleontologist Edwin Harris Colbert in 1966, who named it Icarosaurus siefkeri in honor of Siefker.[2] The fossil remained in the collections of the AMNH until the late 1980s. In 1989, Siefker reclaimed the specimen, which he kept in a private collection during the following decade. In 2000, Siefker sold the fossil at auction in San Francisco through the auction house Butterfield & Butterfield, despite concerns from paleontologists that the sale could render the specimen unavailable for scientific study.[3] The fossil sold for US$167,000, only half of its appraised value, to Dick Spight of California. That same year, Spight donated the Icarosaurus holotype back to the AMNH, where it was put on display 7 October 2000.
- thumb|390px El Icarosaurus era un tipo de reptil planeador que vivió en Norteamérica en el Triásico superior. Sus costillas, unidas por membranas de piel, formaban una especie de ala. Categoría:Reptiles Categoría:Reptiles voladores Categoría:Reptiles planeadores Categoría:Fauna del Triásico
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