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Plant-eating dinosaur species
August 25 , 2023
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- Scientists have discovered the oldest fossil remains of a long-necked, plant-eating dicraeosaurid dinosaur in Jaisalmer.
- It is suggesting that India was a major centre of dinosaur evolution.
- The remains are 167 million years old and belong to a new species, unknown to scientists thus far.
- It has been named ‘Tharosaurus indicus’.
- The first name is referring to the ‘Thar desert’ where the fossils were found, and the second is after its country of origin.
- Theories so far had suggested that the oldest dicraeosaurid was from China (about 166-164 million years old).
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