{"id":452429,"date":"2018-03-15T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=fbf8bfb5eea661fc7739ed67b644fcfc"},"modified":"2018-03-15T06:44:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-15T10:44:00","slug":"new-16-million-year-old-insectivore-species-discovered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=452429","title":{"rendered":"New 16 million-year-old insectivore species discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palaeontologists Vicente D. Crespo, Francisco Javier Ruiz S\u00e1nchez and Plini Montoya, from the department of Botanics and Geology of the Universitat de Val\u00e8ncia, and Marc Furi\u00f3, from the Institut Catal\u00e0 de Paleontologia, have discovered a new fossilised species of insectivore belonging to the unusual and extinct Plesiodimylus family. The identification of this group, related to the fauna that lived in Central Europe during the Miocene (16 million years ago), is based on the study of isolated teeth found in l&#8217;Alcora (Castell\u00f3n), in the district of Araya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palaeontologists Vicente D. Crespo, Francisco Javier Ruiz S&aacute;nchez and Plini Montoya, from the department of Botanics and Geology of the Universitat de Val&egrave;ncia, and Marc Furi&oacute;, from the Institut Catal&agrave; de Paleontologia, have discovered a new fossilised species of insectivore belonging to the unusual and extinct Plesiodimylus family. The identification of this group, related to the fauna that lived in Central Europe during the Miocene (16 million years ago), is based on the study of isolated teeth found in l&#8217;Alcora (Castell&oacute;n), in the district of Araya.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-452429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=452429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452430,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452429\/revisions\/452430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=452429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=452429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=452429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}