Bones of one of the largest dinosaurs

2001/06/01 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia

• Paleontologia
• Arkeologia

This dinosaur, which lived in the Cretaceous, about 146-65 million years ago, was one of the largest in history: It weighed 70 tons and measured between 24 and 30 meters. A family of titanosaurs, with long hills and clays, was a herbivore, as were other species of the family. But the most striking are its enormous dimensions: the bone or humerus of its arm was 1.69 m and was 14% longer than the humerus of the next major dinosaur of the Cretaceous.

Some dinosaur fossil remains suspect that another dinosaur ate it after dying. The bones are not detached from the joints and are dispersed strangely.

In addition, the remains of plants of the time have been observed at the same site and, after the analysis of the samples, it has been concluded that these lands were covered by shallow occasionally exhausted. With the appearance of other fossils, it is intended to continue with the studies to obtain more data on the dinosaur and its environment and know how the entire ecosystem was.