Dinosaur 'discovered' in Castellón lived 130 million years ago
Thursday, July 8, 2021 @ 8:30 PM
A 'NEW' species of dinosaur thought to have lived over 130 million years ago has been discovered in a remote rural area of the province of Castellón on Spain's east coast.
A computer-generated image of what the Portellsaurus Sosbaynati might have looked like (all photos by the research team - UJI, UV and Grup Guix Vila-real)
Researchers from Valencia University (UV), the 'Guix Group' in Vila-real (Castellón province) and Castellón city's Jaume I University (UJI) have published details of their findings in the prestigious US-based science magazine Plos One – and, in layman's terms, what they have discovered is a giant lizard, which would have grown to between six and eight metres (19'6” to 26 feet) when it reached adulthood.
They were able to tell all this from fossilised teeth.
The creature is thought to have been even older than two other species discovered in the Mas de Curolles II archaeological dig in Portell, in the north-western district of Els Ports, in recent years.
These were named after local areas where they were identified – the Morelladon (from Morella) and the Vallivonavenatrix (from Vallibona) – and are believed to be more recent than the newly-baptised Portellsaurus by tens of millions of years.
According to the team, the first two would have roamed the area about 126 to 127 million years ago, but the Portellsaurus Sosbaynati probably lived there 130 million years back.
Read full article at thinkSPAIN.com