Reveal how the dinosaurs were distributed by the supercontinent Pangea

Scientists discovered that a new Middle Jurbadic diplocoid species was spreading across China, thus challenging conventional views about the origin and dispersion of diplocoids and neosauropods.

The diplocoid dinosaurs were distributed in the supercontinent. The pangée 174 million years ago, according to a study published today in the British journal Nature.

Researchers from the Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of Vertebrates of Beijing, China, discovered that a new Middle Jurbadic diplocoid species has spread across China, thus defying conventional views on the origin and dispersion of diplocoids and neosauropods

sauropods were long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs that are among the largest and largest terrestrial animals that have ever existed. 19659003] Traditionally it was thought that the advanced sauropods, the neo – The Auropods, diversified during the disintegration of Pangea, had not reached East Asia before being isolated.

But now, the head of research, Xing Xu, and his colleagues have found partial skeletons of a new skeleton. diplocoid dinosaur species in the Lingwu region (China), which they baptized Lingwulong shenqi (literally, the "surprising dragon Lingwu").

The fossils they found date to about 174 million years ago, this species in the first known neosauropod

According to the evolutionist and biogeographic badyzes carried out by the experts, including the new species, neosauropods were already diverse and widespread in the Middle Jurbadic (about 174 to 163 million years ago), instead of becoming rapidly dominant in the transition to Upper Jurbadic (there are 163 to 145 million of years) as previously thought.

According to this research, the main groups of sauropods could have come from ancient Jurbadic times.