A Titanosaur – largest terrestrial animal in Earth’s history
Argentina, Jan 21: Paleontologists discovered the 98 million year-old, fossilized remains of a titanosaur in Neuquen Province in Argentina’s Patagonia region. It was found in a thick sedimentary deposit known as the Candeleros Formation. The recovered remains were not a complete skeleton. They found 24 vertebrae of the tail and some elements of the pelvic and pectoral girdle. The team who analysed the fossils found that it belonged to a titanosaur, a sauropod dinosaur. Sauropods are characterised by their large size, pillar-like legs and elongated neck and tail.
They believe that the creature will be one of the largest sauropods ever found. It belongs to a different species of titanosaur. It could exceed the size of a Patagotitan, a genus of species whose members lived 95-100 million years ago in the Cretaceous Period and measured up to an astonishing height of 37.2 meters.
Paleontologists are looking for more parts of the dinosaur’s skeleton.
