Fossilized footprints were found in the village of Quintanilla de las Vinas, where before about 1300 years ago, the Visigoths built a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. For several years, the Spanish archaeologists from the Centre for Archaeological and Paleontological in Burgos (CAS) conduct exploration work there. The studies help them to representatives of the National Centre for the Development of the Human Evolution (CENIEH).
– The study traces the animal that it was herbivorous. Probably belonged to sauropods. We have already checked his fingerprints, comparing with traces of other dinosaurs. They do not conform to the tracks of any known animal science – said the archaeological team leader Fidel Torcida.
From the estimates of the Spanish archaeologists that newly discovered dinosaur lived about 140 million years ago. Establish its presence in the area confirmed traces of 45 paths trodden by the animal in the vicinity of the city of Burgos.
How to Torcida informed fossils legs unknown animal prints were discovered in the full remains of other dinosaurs.
– The the test area outside the sauropod yet unknown to us there were, amongst others, Tyrannosaurus and Stegosaurus. Animals veins located around here millions of years ago the lake – Torcida added.
From the estimates of the Spanish archaeologist shows that researchers in the study area within a radius of 5 km seized more than a thousand fossils of dinosaur footprints.
Iberian Peninsula is rich in remains of dinosaurs. In Spain and Portugal, was discovered in recent years in a number of well-preserved dinosaur bones. Area in which the largest number of residues found after these animals are around town Lourinha, located 70 km north of Lisbon. In the course of there since 1997. Sauropod fossils found work, ornitopodów and pterosaurs.
Sauropods this infraorder dinosaurs in a row gadziomiednicznych. These herbivorous quadrupeds were the largest animals ever trod the earth. They had small heads on very long necks and long tails.
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