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Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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Carnegie Museum of Natural History researchers and co-authors of the description of Fedexia striegeli, an exquisitely preserved fossil that provides evidence that the first widespread occurrence of terrestrial vertebrates 300 million years ago was in response to a brief episode of a globally warmer, drier climate. From left: Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology David S Berman, Ph.D., Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager Amy C. Henrici (holding fossil skull of Fedexia striegeli), and Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager Albert D. Kollar. Not pictured: co-author Adjunct Associate Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology David K. Brezinski, Ph.D. Please note: There is no period after Berman's middle initial.

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Mark A. Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History

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