So believe it was the dinosaur, based on a reconstruction with the bones found 
The remains found in Chubut.
New dinosaur fossil found in Patagonia (South) Argentina is an unknown species that explains the origin of the giant herbivores that inhabited Earth 170 million years ago, said the researcher who participated in the discovery.
"The importance of the finding is that this is a new species. It offers information on the origin of sauropod dinosaurs, long neck and tail, herbivores, and were the largest creatures on the Earth's history," said Diego Pol, a scientist from the Paleontological Museum Egidio Feruglio.
The animal is about 3 feet long and was baptized Leonerasaurus is Taquetrensis a "very primitive species, from 180 million years which helps to understand the evolutionary tree of the giants who came after," said Pol
years Argentina has become a 'Jurassic Park' by the discovery of fossils of dinosaurs, including Argentinosaurus Huinculensis them, 98 million years, the largest herbivore found in the world. Replicas of the Argentinosaurus
(40 meters long) and Giganotosaurus Carolinii (13.5 meters), considered the largest carnivorous dinosaur in the world, bigger even than the Tyranosaurus Rex, part of a traveling exhibition that is currently offered in German cities.
"Del Leonerasaurus found much of the skeleton. Something missing skull and tail. But is the spine, waist, arms and legs, "said Pol, a researcher at the state of scientific research agency Conicet in Trelew. The Leonerasaurus was found in a reservoir of Jurassic age located in the Patagonian mountains Taquetrén, Chubut, who gave his 'name' the fossil.
"It was not known anything like it anywhere in the world," said Pol, who made the discovery along with a geologist and a fellow of CONICET.
In this paradise of paleontologists, was found in 1988 the most complete specimen of South America, named Rebbachisaurus Tessonei, a medium-sized herbivore, about 10,000 kilos and 17 meters long, which used to be a delicacy eaten by the huge Giganotosaurus, the researchers said.
American relatives of these giants are the Brachiosaurus, the Camarasaurus and Diplodocus.
The Leonerasaurus is considered a 'missing link' that links the old and young prosauropods with his older brothers, sauropods.
The discovery was published in the journal Plos One
"The importance of the finding is that this is a new species. It offers information on the origin of sauropod dinosaurs, long neck and tail, herbivores, and were the largest creatures on the Earth's history," said Diego Pol, a scientist from the Paleontological Museum Egidio Feruglio.
The animal is about 3 feet long and was baptized Leonerasaurus is Taquetrensis a "very primitive species, from 180 million years which helps to understand the evolutionary tree of the giants who came after," said Pol
years Argentina has become a 'Jurassic Park' by the discovery of fossils of dinosaurs, including Argentinosaurus Huinculensis them, 98 million years, the largest herbivore found in the world. Replicas of the Argentinosaurus
(40 meters long) and Giganotosaurus Carolinii (13.5 meters), considered the largest carnivorous dinosaur in the world, bigger even than the Tyranosaurus Rex, part of a traveling exhibition that is currently offered in German cities.
"Del Leonerasaurus found much of the skeleton. Something missing skull and tail. But is the spine, waist, arms and legs, "said Pol, a researcher at the state of scientific research agency Conicet in Trelew. The Leonerasaurus was found in a reservoir of Jurassic age located in the Patagonian mountains Taquetrén, Chubut, who gave his 'name' the fossil.
"It was not known anything like it anywhere in the world," said Pol, who made the discovery along with a geologist and a fellow of CONICET.
In this paradise of paleontologists, was found in 1988 the most complete specimen of South America, named Rebbachisaurus Tessonei, a medium-sized herbivore, about 10,000 kilos and 17 meters long, which used to be a delicacy eaten by the huge Giganotosaurus, the researchers said.
American relatives of these giants are the Brachiosaurus, the Camarasaurus and Diplodocus.
The Leonerasaurus is considered a 'missing link' that links the old and young prosauropods with his older brothers, sauropods.
The discovery was published in the journal Plos One
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