Sharovipteryx mirabilis, early gliding reptile Triceratops The orange bars in the

The orange bars in the photos are 10 centimeters for scale

The cooling trend culminated in the Ice Age of the Pliocene (10-3 million years ago)

In some cases hundreds of stones

Thousands of highly remarkable fossils have been found in the quarries

5 inches in diameber at the base and weight about 20 pounds each

Sharovipteryx mirabilis, early gliding reptile Triceratops The orange bars in thePronounced (shahr ov IP ter iks) Sharovipteryx (meaning "Sharov's wings"), aka Podopteryx, was a Pterosauromorpha (a gliding thecodont, a pre pterosaur) from the early Triassic period, about 245 million years ago. Sharovipteryx was a gliding animal that used its uropatagium, a small, fibrous flap of skin that stretched from the very long legs and the tail. It had large eyes, a long snout, and small triangular teeth. A single fossil (together with some