Very cool discovery.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7680444.stm
Rather than a wetter environment than today, the article says:
probably a watering hole during the Early Jurassic Period, when the US south-west was covered with a field of sand dunes larger than the Sahara Desert
😯
Barb
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