BUENOS AIRES – A team of Argentine and Canadian scientists this month in the southern province of Neuquen found the fossilized remains of a carnivorous dinosaur, authorities said Tuesday.
The team members – from the town museum in Las Lajas and Canada’s University of Alberta – found fossilized bones belonging to a group of so-called saurischian (“lizard-hipped”) dinosaurs in a spot near the town, which is 1,300 kilometers (about 800 miles) south of Buenos Aires.
The saurischian dinosaurs, which grew to as much as 4 meters (17 feet) in length and 2 meters (6.5 feet) in height, were carnivorous and bipedal.
Argentina’s Patagonia, where Neuquen province is located, in recent years has become a focal point for finding the fossilized skeletons of animals that lived millions of years ago, many of which are found in different areas and which – therefore – are thought to have traversed the region.
Last December, a group of Argentine experts, also in Neuquen, discovered a paleological site where they found dinosaur fossils dated to 130 million years ago.
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