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The 3-Eyed Monster of Pomona's Clay Pit

Record #:
9947
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Abstract:
Officials with the Pomona Pipe Products Division of the Pomona Corporation have donated fossils found at their Gulf, NC clay mine to the American Museum of Natural History, including one three-eyed dicynodont (Placerias gigas) previously unknown east of Texas and Arizona. Other fossils found at the Chatham County site include a cousin of Tyrannosaurus Rex and Phytosaurs, ancestors of the crocodile.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 40 Issue 16, Feb 1973, p20, il