What was the Weigeltisaurid?

The 255-million-year-old dinosaur is presumed to be the oldest airborne reptile.

via Smithsonian

The fossil hunter found the strange skeleton by splitting pieces of shale, cracking the fossil into two slabs. One slab ended up in the hands of a private collector and likely contains pieces of the reptile’s bones. The other slab held most of the skeleton and landed in the collection of the State Museum of Natural History in Karlsruhe, Germany. Scientists pinpointed the fossil in the second slab as a Weigeltisaurus, which was first described from another fossil in 1930, but the reptile’s body shape still remained an enigma to paleontologists.

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