US EditionA New Middle Jurassic Diplodocoid Suggests an Earlier Dispersal and Diversification of Sauropod Dinosaurs
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A new Middle Jurassic diplodocoid suggests an earlier dispersal and diversification of sauropod dinosaurs
The fragmentation of the supercontinent Pangaea has been suggested to have had a profound impact on Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrate distributions. One current paradigm is that geographic isolation produced an endemic biota in East Asia during the Jurassic, while simultaneously preventing diplodocoid sauropod dinosaurs and several other tetrapod groups from reaching this region. Here we report the discovery of the earliest diplodocoid, and the fi…
Fossil of new dinosaur species discovered in SW China’s Yunnan
A new genus and species of non-sauropodan sauropodomorph, the Lishulong wangi gen. et sp. nov., has been identified from a fossil discovered in the Lower Jurassic Lufeng Formation, in Southwest China's Yunnan Province.
Near-complete dinosaur fossil skull in China is a new Jurassic sauropod species
A fossil skull found in northwestern China belongs to a rare group of dinosaurs that is an early member of a lineage of sauropods not related to better-known species such as Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus. Sauropods were the largest land animals of all time. They had distinctive small heads, and long necks and tails. Sauropods could eat more than 200kg of plant matter every – the largest species could have grown to 70–100 tonnes. This dinosaur gr…
In northwestern China, paleontologists recently discovered a new species of long-necked dinosaur. According to their estimates, the young animal...
Dinosaurs are partly huge creatures, but occasionally tiny parts of them open up completely new insights into their millions of years old family history.
Identifying a new species of dinosaur is still a small event. Recently, paleontologists discovered in China the remains of a specimen belonging to the family of giant long-necked dinosaurs, the sauropods. Rarely, the skull is particularly well preserved.
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