The most rare Dinososaurs
Introduction
A fossil unemployed in Australia by a volunteer excavator has been identified as the west and dearest dinosaur that wandered around the country 110 million years ago. The Elaphrosaur, whose name means "Ligo of light legs", was a member of the thermosurios family that included all predatory species, such as the Tyrannosaurus rex and the velociraptor.
Developing
This dinosaur had a surprisingly long neck, which can indicate that at some point it has been carnivorous and eventually became herbivorous. It had the height of a small emú, its measurements were approximately 2 m from the head to the end of its long tail and had short arms, which ended with four fingers. ELAPHROSAUR: The weirdest dinosaur, identified in Australia.
Stephen Poropat, a researcher at the Technological University of Swinburne in Melbourne, considered the elafrosaurios as the weirdest dinosaur with only three species named from Tanzania, China and Argentina. "This is the first registration of the group in Australia, and only the second record of the Cretaceous worldwide". "These are some of the most disconcerting thermal dinosaurs, since they are known for so few fossils".
Steve Brusatte, paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, said it did not participate in the investigation. "They seem to have been light, fast and long neck thermal that traded with the carnivorous diet of their ancestors and became omnivores". The first fossil found of the weirdest dinosaur, which consisted of a single vertebra, was found in 2015 in an excavation site called Eric the Red West near Cape Otway.
The excavations in this place are directed by the Melbourne Museum, where immense tough and gray rock slabs are extracted throughout the coast, which is usually flooded with sea water. "One of the unusual things in this site is that the first or the first two hours in an excavation here are dedicated to wet sand," said student Adele Pentland, of the doctoral work team the University of Swinburne.
conclusion
This rare vertebra about 5 cm long, found by Jessica Parker, was part of a Melbourne Museum collection. Based on the elongated form of the bone, at first it was thought that it came from a flying pterosour, and not a dinosaur. Several years later, when a deeper study of this fossil, Pentland and its researchers from the Australian pterosaurs were conducted, they discovered that it was something completely different.
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