Chinese paleontologists have discovered in the southwest of China the fossilized bones of a dinosaur of an unknown species, which
Helped determine the age of a dinosaurhistological analysis. Having studied the shape of his teeth, experts came to the conclusion that he was a herbivore and ate ferns and pine needles. It is worth noting that scientists could not attribute it to previously known species.
However, they found that the fossilizedthe remains belonged to a dinosaur from the group of sauropods. Let us recall that sauropods or sauropods are a large group of four-legged herbivorous dinosaurs from the order Saurischians, who lived from the end of the Triassic to the Cretaceous periods on all continents, including Antarctica. Sauropods number about 130 species, up to 13 families, about 70 genera.
Photo: Courtesy of Yunnan University Center for Evolutionary Vertebrate Biology.
Photo: Courtesy of Yunnan University Center for Evolutionary Vertebrate Biology.
Paleontologists have suggested that the dinosaur may have drowned as a result of the flood. However, it was this that allowed most of his bones to be completely preserved.
The find was made in Lufeng County, Chuxiong-Yi Autonomous Region, Yunnan Province. Among the remains are a portion of a dinosaur skull, a complete cervical vertebra, a dorsal vertebra, and a metacarpal bone.
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