Petrified Forest National Park officials say museum staff have been busy taking care of new pale-ontological discoveries. Officials say over 4,000-fossil specimens were cataloged in 2020, including 3 new holotypes. Holotypes are the “original” fossils of a new animal or plant that become the example that all similar fossils are compared with. The holotypes are 3-new species of animal discovered in the park over the past year.
