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An amphibian that lived about 300 million years ago is named Fedexia, after the delivery company FedEx.
Its fossil skull was found at a FedEx site near Pittsburgh International Airport, Pennsylvania, by University of Pittsburgh student Adam Striegel on a field trip. When the species was described in 2010, it was named Fedexia striegeli, after the company and the student. It was a meat-eating amphibian that lived about 70 million years before the first dinosaurs.
Sources
- Fedexia Wikipedia
- Meat-Eating Amphibian Predated Dinos Discovery News (archived by the Wayback Machine)
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What the wording keeps
- about 300 million years ago (approximate)
- about 70 million years before the first dinosaurs (approximate)
- found on land owned by FedEx, near the airport
- described in 2010 (Annals of Carnegie Museum)
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