The new paleontological discovery in Nick again puts Argentinean Patagonia in the center of the world scientific scene. This is CENTIGentina Sánchezi, a new type of large and long dinosaur of the neck, which inhabited the region more than 91 million years ago.
The detection was published in the journal Cretaceus Research and is not only progress in paleontology, but also a tribute to the contribution of national science and technology.
Dinosaur who honors Argentine science
The name of the genre, Ciencialgentina, is the recognition of the Argentine scientific system, while the epithet of Sanchuzi honors Paleontologist Teresa Sanchez, who was an outstanding researcher at Conicet and teachers at the National University of Córdoba, who devoted her life to the Fossils study before her death in 2011.
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Leonardo Salgado, Paleontologist of Knitnyte and National University of Rio Negro with Maria Edith Simon, headed a team that worked on the identification of this new type.
Unique characteristics of CENTICENTINA SANCHEZI
Ingintegentina Sanchezi was a sauropode belonging to the Rejisáuridos group, known for its huge bodies, long necks and light vertebrae, adapted for flexible movements. Among its main features, they stand out:
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The absence of the cervical epipase (projection of bones in the vertebrae of the neck).
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Spinal vertebrae reinforced with accessories.
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The unique structure in the vertebral flows, which optimized the movement of the tail.
This dinosaur is considered one of the latest diplodoodeoders before the replacement of faunistic, which brought the titanosaurus as dominant in late small form.
Patagonia, prehistoric giant refuge
Argentinean Patagonia is a privileged region for paleontology: to date, more than 170 species of dinosaurs have been discovered that inhabited the continent between Yuri and Melov.
A site where the remains of Ciencontenteina Sanchezi have already been known to other important discoveries, such as Choconsaurus Baileywillisi in 2017. In this case, fossils were scattered on an area of 100 square meters and at a depth of 1.5 meters.
How important is this search?
According to experts such as Sebastian Apestegua, a researcher in COCICET, this discovery helps to better understand the variety of rheocyuride sauroprodes, groups of dinosaurs, which are still represented by many unknown people.
He emphasized that these animals, despite the fact that they were not the largest, were flexible thanks to their light bones full of pneumatic cavities.
From Russia, the paleontologist Alexander Avveeriaanov said that Ingintegentina Sanchezi may be the most primitive Rejisage, still known, which confirms the theory that this line has arisen in South America.
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The legacy of world science
This new discovery illuminates not only the fossil wealth of Argentina, but also the value of her scientific tradition. The combination of arid and little altered territory, together with decades of paleontological studies, continues to position the country as one of the world leaders in the study of dinosaurs.
CENTIGENTINA SANCHEZI not only expands our knowledge about prehistoric giants, but also remembers that the future of science depends on continuing research and education.