"missing link" an omnivore in Argentina discovered
dinosaur footprint.
Buenos Aires - Argentine researchers claims to be the long-sought link between carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs found. As the director of the Natural History Museum in San Juan, Oscar Alcober announced, the fossil of a dinosaur in the omnivorous Ischigualasto Valley in northwestern Argentina was discovered three years ago. This is the missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and the giant four-footed herbivores. "This is an important piece of the puzzle of the origins of dinosaurs," said Alcober.
According to the study of the name "Panphagia protos" dubbed dinosaurs lived about 228 million years ago. "Panphagia" means in Greek "omnivores", "protos" means "first". In contrast to its huge evolutionary descendants, the animal was only 30 inches tall and five feet long been. The fact that the dinosaurs ate both plants and meat, the researchers concluded, according Alcober of the shape of his jaw. This is less strong than in the carnivores, the teeth are shaped differently.
The researchers found in 2006, claims to nearly half of the fossilized dinosaur skeleton, which is a fairly extensive reconstruction of the allowed "Panphagia protos. The According to Alcober discovery can also yield information on the origin of the giant plant-eating dinosaurs: This would have been 240 million years ago - and not, as previously thought before 205 million years - have lived on the earth. The results of their discovery published Alcober and his colleagues in the Internet magazine PlosOne.org. Was financed their expedition to Ischigualasto valley from a Japanese TV station that filmed the discovery well.
in Argentina have already been recorded other important dinosaur discoveries: In the late 80s, in the province of Neuquén Argentinosaurus Huinculensis that found more than 40 meters in length, most herbivorous dinosaurs. 1993 discovered Scientists in the province's largest carnivore, the Giganotosaurus carolinii.
dinosaur footprint.
Buenos Aires - Argentine researchers claims to be the long-sought link between carnivorous and herbivorous dinosaurs found. As the director of the Natural History Museum in San Juan, Oscar Alcober announced, the fossil of a dinosaur in the omnivorous Ischigualasto Valley in northwestern Argentina was discovered three years ago. This is the missing link between carnivorous dinosaurs and the giant four-footed herbivores. "This is an important piece of the puzzle of the origins of dinosaurs," said Alcober.
According to the study of the name "Panphagia protos" dubbed dinosaurs lived about 228 million years ago. "Panphagia" means in Greek "omnivores", "protos" means "first". In contrast to its huge evolutionary descendants, the animal was only 30 inches tall and five feet long been. The fact that the dinosaurs ate both plants and meat, the researchers concluded, according Alcober of the shape of his jaw. This is less strong than in the carnivores, the teeth are shaped differently.
The researchers found in 2006, claims to nearly half of the fossilized dinosaur skeleton, which is a fairly extensive reconstruction of the allowed "Panphagia protos. The According to Alcober discovery can also yield information on the origin of the giant plant-eating dinosaurs: This would have been 240 million years ago - and not, as previously thought before 205 million years - have lived on the earth. The results of their discovery published Alcober and his colleagues in the Internet magazine PlosOne.org. Was financed their expedition to Ischigualasto valley from a Japanese TV station that filmed the discovery well.
in Argentina have already been recorded other important dinosaur discoveries: In the late 80s, in the province of Neuquén Argentinosaurus Huinculensis that found more than 40 meters in length, most herbivorous dinosaurs. 1993 discovered Scientists in the province's largest carnivore, the Giganotosaurus carolinii.
