• DOI:10.1126/science.1132885
Corpus ID: 9343711

A Giant European Dinosaur and a New Sauropod Clade

@article{RoyoTorres2006AGE,
  title={A Giant European Dinosaur and a New Sauropod Clade},
  author={R. Royo-Torres and A. Cobos and L. Alcal{\'a}},
  journal={Science},
  year={2006},
  volume={314},
  pages={1925 - 1927}
}

R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, L. Alcalá

Published 2006

Medicine, Geography

Science

Fossils of a giant sauropod dinosaur, Turiasaurus riodevensis, have been recovered from terrestrial deposits of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary) of Riodeva (Teruel Province, Spain). Its humerus length (1790 millimeters) and estimated mass (40 to 48 metric tons) indicate that it may have been the most massive terrestrial animal in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the fossil represents a member of a hitherto… CONTINUE READING

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