Paleontologists have discovered the fossil remains of a ‘titanosaurus’ in Argentina, which they say belongs to the largest dinosaur ever. And although they have so far discovered only a few bones, it undoubtedly comes from a spot. One that probably measured more than 120 feet from head to tail and weighed an earthquake of 220,000 pounds.
CNN reports on the new fossil, which paleontologists find amid the excavation in Argentina. The paleontologists found the fossil of the 94 million year old dinosaur in thick, sedimentary deposits and say that they now have bones from its pelvis and the parts of its skeleton that connected the giant’s bones to its body.
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“It is a giant dinosaur, but we expect to find much more of the skeleton in future field trips, so we will have the opportunity to address with confidence how big it really was,” said Alejandro Otero, a paleontologist of the Argentine Museo de La. Plata, told CNN. Otero and several colleagues published a paper in the magazine, Chalk research, which sets out the dino bones.
Otero et al. says it is not yet clear what kind of Titanosauria this massive dinosaur belongs to. However, they say it is probably larger or comparable to the Patagotitan or the Argentinosaurus. Patagotitan and Argentinosaurus are both genera belonging to Titanosauria; itself a diverse group of sauropod dinosaurs. (Sauropods were quadrupedal herbivores with long necks that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous, and, incidentally, sneezed at Lex Murphy Jurassic Park.)
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Otero and his colleagues also say that this dinosaur helps fill in the picture of how titanosaurs roamed. The significance of this jumbo sauropod is proof that smaller titanosaurs have spent time with larger children. And that these size differences may explain the existence of sauropod diversity in the Late Cretaceous.
As you move forward, the goal is to gather as much of the dinosaur’s bones as possible. And discover the sex and species of it. Undoubtedly difficult tasks, but when completed, it can lead to people reconsidering how much earth shook when dinosaurs wandered around there.