Paleontologists have unearthed fossils of a 98-million-year-old titanosaur in the province of Nuequin in western Argentina’s western Patagonia, which contained thick, alluvial deposits known as the thick Ndeleros formation.
The 24 vertebrae of the detected pelvic and pectoral girdle elements are believed to be tight anus urna, a diverse group of solarpod dinosaurs, characterized by their size, long neck and tail, and four-legged orientation.
“It’s a giant dinosaur, but we expect to find more of the skeleton in future field trips, so we’ll be more likely to address with confidence how big it really was,” said Alejandro Otoro, a paleologist with the Museo de la Argentina. Plata told CNN by email.
Titonsor fossils have been found on all continents except Antarctica. But the largest “multi-ton” species of the species – including more than 40 tons of tetanosaurs – have been found mostly in Patagonia.
Without analyzing the humor or femur of dinosaurs, experts say it is not yet possible to say how much the animal weighs. However, the partially recovered dinosaur could be considered “one of the largest titanosaurs,” the experts said, adding that the potential body mass could be higher than that of Patagotiton or Argentinosaurus.
The patagottens may be the largest terrestrial animal ever in the world, weighing 77 tons, while the Argentinosaurus was similarly large, weighing up to meters0 meters (111 feet) and weighing up to 150 tons. Which weighs 12 times more. Than African elephants (up to 9 tons)
Experts believe that at the beginning of the Late Cretaceous period, which began 101 million years ago, this pattern of coexistence of large titanosaurs, together with medium-sized titanosaurs and small-sized rebachisaurids, strongly suggests this.
“These size differences, in terms of specific divisions, could really explain the existence of such solarpod diversity in the nucleus basin during the late Cretaceous,” they wrote.
While they do not consider the animal to be a new species, they have so far been unable to assign it to the well-known genus of dinosaurs, the researchers said.
The research was carried out by the Zapala Museum of Argentina, the Museo de la Plata, the Museo Agidio Ferruglio and the Universities of Rio Negro and Zaragoza.
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