#sauropod — Public Fediverse posts

New #Cretaceous-Era #Titanosaur Species Discovered in Argentina https://www.sci.news/paleontology/inawentu-oslatus-12664.html

A rebbachisaurid-mimicking titanosaur and evidence of a Late Cretaceous faunal disturbance event in South-West #Gondwana https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667123002823

"A genus and species of rebbachisaurid-mimicking titanosaurian #sauropod that stretched over 15 m has been unearthed in #Patagonia, #Argentina."

Meet #Bustingorrytitan shiva, New Gigantic #Titanosaur from #Argentina https://www.sci.news/paleontology/bustingorrytitan-shiva-12641.html

A new gigantic #titanosaurian #sauropod from the early Late #Cretaceous of #Patagonia https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app010862023.html

"Bustingorrytitan shiva has an estimated body mass of 67.3 metric tons, which makes it one of the largest #sauropod #dinosaurs ever recorded. Gigantic #titanosaurs were an important component of the Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of Patagonia, at least for almost 50 million years"

#Paleontologists Discover #NewSpecies of #Sauropod #Dinosaur in #Spain
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/garumbatitan-morellensis-12306.html

New sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of #Morella (Spain) provides new insights on the evolutionary history of Iberian somphospondylan titanosauriforms https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad124/7281765

"#Garumbatitan morellensis is one of the most primitive members of a group of #sauropods called #Somphospondyli, which corresponds to one of the most diverse and abundant groups during the #Cretaceous"

#Paleontologists Uncover #NewSpecies of #Titanosaur in #Egypt https://www.sci.news/paleontology/igai-semkhu-12251.html

A new #titanosaurian (#Dinosauria: #Sauropoda) from the Upper #Cretaceous (Campanian) #Quseir Formation of the #Kharga Oasis, Egypt https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2023.2199810

"Interestingly, all known #titanosaurians from #Campanian-#Maastrichtian deposits in northern #Africa and the then-conjoined #ArabianPeninsula were small to medium-sized for #sauropod #dinosaurs... The same is true for southern #Europe"

#African #FossilFriday

#Sauropods are the most awe-inspiring of #dinosaurs, #evolving into the largest land #animals of all time. One of the most important #fossils for understanding #sauropod origins comes from Lake #Kariba on the #Zimbabwe/#Zambia border (the #bones come from the Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 side of the lake). The early sauropod found there was named Vulcanodon karibaenesis and it's a rare window into the early #Jurassic world of the oldest sauropods.