(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Garumbadtan Morellensis

(DECEMBER-2023)

Garumbadtan Morellensis

• Scientists discovered a massive long-necked dinosaur ‘titan’ in Spain and named it Garumbatitan morellensis.

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• It was a Titanosaur species, which is a subgroup of sauropods.
• It was the only lineage to survive until the dinosaur-killing asteroid struck around 66 million years ago,
• These massive fossils, as per estimates, date back to the Lower Cretaceous period (some 145 to 66 million years ago).
• These titans belonged to the sub-group Somphospondyii.
• Titanosaur species lived from the Late Jurassic Epoch (163.5 million to 145 million years ago) to the end of the Cretaceous Period (145 million to 66 million years ago),
• Titanosaur fossils have been found on all continents except Antarctica and include some 40 species.
• The group contains the largest terrestrial animals known, some even approaching the size of modern whales,

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Courtesy: Science Reporter