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'Following the paper’s publication in Cretaceous Research, an online campaign with the hashtag called for the specimen’s return, citing palaeontological colonialism, in which scientists from wealthy nations take fossils from low- and middle-income nations. Because it is the only known specimen of its kind and is well preserved, researchers consider the Ubirajara fossil to be a holotype — a gold-standard specimen used to describe a new species'

nature.com/articles/d41586-023

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