{"id":181457,"date":"2021-06-04T16:25:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=181457"},"modified":"2021-06-04T16:25:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T14:25:02","slug":"researchers-from-the-university-of-warsaw-discovered-a-new-species-of-aetosaurus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/researchers-from-the-university-of-warsaw-discovered-a-new-species-of-aetosaurus\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers from the University of Warsaw discovered a new species of aetosaurus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Scientists from the University of Warsaw (UW) have discovered an unknown species of prehistoric reptile.\u00a0The fossils of\u00a0Kocurypelta silvestris\u00a0are one of the few finds by palaeontologists at the site in Kocury.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first confirmed remains of dinosaurs from Poland were identified in the village of Kocury, located in the Opole Voivodeship.\u00a0They were described in 1932 under the name\u00a0Velocipes guerichi.\u00a0After almost a hundred years, Polish palaeontologists have once again carried out excavations in the local forest.<\/p>\n<p>The results of their research were published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, in the article &#8220;An Upper Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrate Assemblage from the Forgotten Kocury Locality (Poland) with a New Aetosaur Taxon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The publication summarizes the current excavation works carried out in the forest in Kocury, which allowed to discover new fossils of late-Triassic vertebrates, including lungfish, turtles and a new aetosaurus.\u00a0It was\u00a0called Kocurypelta silvestris, which in Latin means &#8220;Kocury forest shield&#8221; &#8211; said \u0141ukasz Czepi\u0144ski from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the University of Warsaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from the University of Warsaw (UW) have discovered an unknown species of prehistoric reptile.\u00a0The fossils of\u00a0Kocurypelta silvestris\u00a0are one of the few finds by palaeontologists at the site in Kocury.\u00a0\u00a0 The first confirmed remains of dinosaurs from Poland were identified in the village of Kocury, located in the Opole Voivodeship.\u00a0They were described in 1932 under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}