Published November 24,2023
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Brazil‘s geological service on Thursday introduced a brand new species of dinosaur, a speedy animal that lived within the desert throughout the early Cretaceous interval.
The new species, known as Farlowichnus rapidus, was a small carnivorous animal concerning the dimension of a modern-day seriema chicken, or about 60-90 cm (2-3 ft) tall, in accordance with researchers. The discovery was printed in scientific journal Cretaceous Research.
“From the large distance between the footprints found, it is possible to deduce that it was a very fast reptile that ran across the ancient dunes,” the geological service stated in a press release.
The early Cretaceous interval stretched from 100 to 145 million years in the past.
The fossilized dinosaur “trackways,” as scientists name them, had been first discovered within the Nineteen Eighties by Italian priest and paleontologist Giuseppe Leonardi in what at present is town of Araraquara, in Sao Paulo state.
Leonardi donated one of many footprint samples, discovered within the so-called Botucatu formation, a gaggle of rocks shaped by an historical dune desert, to Brazil’s Museum of Earth Sciences (MCTer) in 1984.
The footprints are totally different from all different identified dinosaur footprints, stated MCTer paleontologist Rafael Costa.
Source: www.anews.com.tr