deposit Arino continues to paleontology treasures in the form of new dinosaur bones as presented yesterday, Europelta carbonensis , the most complete battleship Europe which scientists hope to explain how it was evolution of these animals when they began separating the Atlantic to America and Europe. “These animals are more common in America but not in Europe,” said yesterday the director of the Joint-Paleontology Foundation Teruel-Dinópolis, Luis Alcalá.
What’s special about this animal, who lived between 110 and 113 million years ago, is that their study was to discover how their development on both sides of the Atlantic in a time in which America and Europe were still joined. In fact, the remains found in Teruel, belonging to four copies, are the dinosaurs of this group most complete and oldest in Europe. This dinosaur lived in the ancestor of the present Mediterranean Sea, which scientists call the Tethys Sea, and measured about 5 meters long, one meter high and one wide.
She fed her two-ton-based small-sized bushes, walking on all fours and protected by dermal plates forming a protective shield on the dorsal surface. So far scientists have studied two of the four specimens found. Was coal mining which has allowed to expose these new dinosaurs, since the site is located in the lignite mine Santa María de Arino, which exploits Samca. “The company has made us work extracting the material they are interested but we spare us,” smiling commented Alcalá in the presentation, because if there were no mine does not have findings, nor without the cooperation of the mining company, said .
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