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researcher Ignacio Diaz in a reservoir of footprints. University of La Rioja

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riojanos footprint of a bipedal, carnivorous dinosaur and large so far not been described and could become a new species not yet documented. One of the conclusions of the researcher at the University of La Rioja (UR), Ignacio Díaz, who discovered footprints and who has this month published a thesis about it.

thesis entitled Icnitas bipedal dinosaurs La Rioja (Cameros Basin, Lower Cretaceous): paleobiological icnotaxonomía and implementation has been rated excellent cum laude

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Diaz, 32, has analyzed 9,198 footprints -footprint tread of a vertebrate- in 142 fields that exist in La Rioja , which is one of the regions of the world with a greater volume of fossilized dinosaur footprints.

How was the dinosaur La Rioja Baja

Their study, as explained to Efe, concluded that in the place that is the mountains of La Rioja Baja, in the vicinity of Munilla, Igea and Cervera del Rio Alhama, dwelt today, 120 million years ago , herd, bipedal dinosaur , and large carnivore because their footprints are about 40 centimeters, so, according to his calculations, would measure about 1.70 meters to hip .

Another distinctive feature of this animal is that in his tracks, the ‘finger 2′, which is the innermost of the three I had, had a large nail something that does not match other dinosaurs already identified in the world.

Finding the footprints surprise

work, done while he was a researcher at the UR and led by professor and expert in paleontology Felix Perez Lorente, sought to expand and update studies footprints in this region that have been made for over four decades.

However, explained that initially had no power to classify groups of footprints so far listed as belonging to an unknown carnivore.

But when grouping, found that there were more than a hundred that were similar, but that did not coincide with any of the already described in the Rioja and other sites located throughout the world.

Diaz proposes a name for the new species of dinosaur: Riojadopus amei

Diaz has stated that

still will not give an official name to Dinosaur , since it must wait for scientific publications supporting this discovery, something expected to happen throughout 2014, although he would like “a name related to La Rioja” and, indeed, in his thesis work suggests to “Riojadopus amei.”

It recalled that the investigation of footprints around the world has brought more discoveries such as, for example, a species of Iguanodon, whose first steps were identified just a decade ago.

The contributions in this thesis Diaz made new technologies and give more three-dimensional image certainty to the fact that I found something that had not been identified so far, he assured.

“But once this is published, sure there are researchers associated ichnites Elsewhere this species “, according to Diaz, who next April will join the University of Rio Black (Argentina) by not having a job offer in Spain.