Discovered the remains of a new type Sauropoda
February 25, 2010 – 1:27 amAmerican palaeontologists have discovered the remains of an unknown Sauropoda in the National Monument "Dinosaurs", located on the border of Colorado and Utah. A new species has the scientific name Abydosaurus mcintoshi. Researchers fortunate to learn from older rocks (104,46 ± 0,95) just four million years of dinosaur skulls, two of which were virtually intact (here it's worth noting that the team is known of the skull, only eight out of more than 120 species of Sauropoda). All found the remains of A. mcintoshi belong to young individuals, who, according to researchers, reaching 7.6 meters in length. Skulls are fairly simple structure that have been linked to their extremely small dimensions: the Sauropoda they accounted for only one two-hundredth part of the total body. In analyzing the lessons of bones was found that the closest relative of A. mcintoshi should ...








