Thousands of highly remarkable fossils have been found in the quarries
The cooling trend culminated in the Ice Age of the Pliocene (10-3 million years ago)
The orange bars in the photos are 10 centimeters for scale
Other isolated parts of the plant are given other names
In some cases hundreds of stones
Sharovipteryx mirabilis, early gliding reptile Triceratops Thousands of highly remarkable fossilsPronounced (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