Found by Russian scientists in Siberia was a new kind of dinosaur – RIA Novosti

10:04 11.08.2016

(updated: 10:13 11.08.2016 )

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TOMSK, August 11 -. RIA Novosti Scientists in Tomsk and St. Petersburg, investigated the remains of a giant animal, found in the Kemerovo region, and found that the bones of a previously unknown species of dinosaurs, said on Thursday the press service of the Tomsk State university (TSU).

According to the university, unique finds made paleontologists TSU between 1995 to 2011 years Shestakovo near the village on the right bank of the river Kiya (Kemerovo region). Scientists have suggested that the remains belong to large herbivorous dinosaurs. Since the fragments were made in blocks of sandstone, a few years left on them from the rock extraction.

“The researchers TSU, St. Petersburg State University (University) and the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences have identified a new taxon in the family titanozavrid -. Four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs during the comparative analysis it was found that Titanosaurs found by paleontologists TSU has structural features that distinguish it from all other members of this group, “- said in a statement

Scientists have found that herbivorous dinosaurs living on the territory of modern Western Siberia in the early Cretaceous (about 100 million years ago), belongs to the suborder sauropod, but. He is a representative of a new species. Its length was about 20 meters, weight – about 50 tons. Scientists TSU finish work on the description of its findings, the new species is given a Latin name

“The new dinosaur is different from fellow structural features -. Sacral rib he arranged in a star shape and converge toward the center, there is no articulation of the vertebra in the neural . arc ancient reptiles with the structure of the skeleton is not yet found in any country in the world “, – the press-service

currently, paleontologists collect available fragments of dinosaur together.. Already connected to the largest bones that were once titanosaur sacrum, from pieces of the blades mounted dinosaur vertebrae. Scientists believe that the unique exhibit is to see as many as possible, so offered to install the most intact part of the dinosaur on the second floor of the main TSU body.