Sentences with phrase «cretaceous sauropod»

Since the discovery of well - preserved fossils of an early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur from Tanba in August 2006, our museum saff have been engaging themselves to excavation of dinosaur and other Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from this and adjacent regions, as well as academic studies on the resultant materials.

«This specimen is at the highest palaeolatitude of any late Cretaceous sauropod in either hemisphere,» says Tom Rich at Museum Victoria in Melbourne, Australia.

Not exact matches

«The fossils described in our paper reveal new details about the last sauropods in North America, which helps us better understand who Alamosaurus was related to and how this species made it to southern North America by 67 to 66 million years ago — just in time to go extinct at the end of the Cretaceous!»

«What better way to test this than to compare fertility in the world during the Cretaceous period — where sauropods, the largest herbivores to exist, roamed freely — to the Carboniferous period — a time in Earth's history before four - legged erbivores evolved.»

Sauropods were most common in the Jurassic period, but temperatures were highest in the Cretaceous, which followed it, he says.

Paralititan stromeri was a giant titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur discovered in coastal deposits in the Upper Cretaceous Bahariya Formation of Egypt.

The gigantic footprint was left behind by a sauropod from the Early Cretaceous.

According to the study, the Moabosaurus utahensis is actually more closely related to the sauropod species found in Spain and Tanzania, leading researchers to believe that there were intermittent cross-continent connections during the cretaceous period.