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They Find in Chubut a New Species of Herbivorous and Long-Necked Dinosaur: How They Discovered It
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The fossil was found by a Baquean and a team of paleontologists and scientists from the Conicet determined that it was a herbivorous sauropod from the Jurassic period.According to preliminary studies, it would have measured between 15 and 20 meters and weighed almost 15 tons.
The remains of Bicharracosaurus dionidei correspond to an adult about 20 meters long, who lived more than 155 million years ago.
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elciudadanoweb.comBuenos Aires, 18 April (NA) — A team of CONICET scientists confirmed the discovery of a new species of dinosaur in the province of Chubut, from fossils found in the Cañadón Calcareo formation. The specimen was called Bicharracosaurus dionidei and inhabited the region during the Higher Jurassic period, more than 150 million years ago. The study was published in the scientific journal PeerJ, where the anatomical characteristics and the evolutionar…
A CONICET team together with specialists from the Egidio Feruglio Paleontological Museum announced the discovery of a new species of dinosaur in the province of Chubut. It is the Bicharracosaurus, a herbivorous sauropod that lived about 160 million years ago, in the middle of the Jurassic period. The finding has a peculiarity: everything began thanks to the gaze of a Baquean. Dionide Mesa was the one who detected the remains in the Calcareous Ca…
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