Abydosaurus: New Sauropod Dinosaur Discovered In Utah
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 17:35
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A team of paleontologists has discovered a new dinosaur species which belongs to the same group of gigantic, long-necked, long-tailed, four-legged, plant-eating sauropods as Brachiosaurus. The new species has been dubbed 'Abydosaurus', and its The discovery will be detailed in an upcoming issue of Naturwissenshaften. The fossils were excavated from the Cedar Mountain Formation in Dinosaur National Monument near Vernal, Utah. The team recovered four heads – two still fully intact – from a quarry in Dinosaur National Monument in eastern Utah. Complete skulls have been recovered for only eight of more than 120 known varieties of sauropod. read more