Article: Tucumcari students make phyto-find.

Byline: Thomas Garcia

Mar. 14--Teenage volunteers at the MesaLands Dinosaur Museum have made a rare find.

Tucumcari High School Students Stephen Smith, Carmen Runyan and Donny Price found teeth from a Phytosaur. That's a semi-aquatic species that flourished in the late Triassic period 205 million years ago. They found the teeth while screening a sample of soil taken from a site in Arizona. The three volunteers are supervised and taught and work with Axel Hungerbuehler, Ph.,D., museum curator. "I am grateful to have them around," said Hungerbuehler. "With their help we have gotten work done that probably would not have been done. I work with the ...

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