In Jaisalmer fossils, scientists obtain a new dinosaur species, identify it following Thar desert | India Information – Instances of India
The study printed in ‘Scientific Reports’, an global journal by publishers of Nature, reveals that the remains are 167 million decades previous and belong to a new species, not known to experts as a result far. It has been named ‘Tharosaurus indicus’, the to start with title referring to the ‘Thar desert’ exactly where the fossils have been found, and the next right after its state of origin.
In accordance to the experts, fossils of dicraeosaurid dinosaurs have been located previously in North and South Americas, Africa and China, but such fossils ended up not acknowledged from India.
“A systematic fossil exploration and excavation programme initiated by GSI in 2018 in the Middle Jurassic rocks in the Jaisalmer location of Rajasthan has led to this discovery,” stated Prof Sunil Bajpai, chair professor of vertebrate paleontology in the department of earth sciences at IIT-Roorkee, who carried out a detailed study of the fossils for around 5 years alongside with his colleague Debajit Datta, a countrywide postdoctoral fellow.
The rocks in which the fossils ended up uncovered are dated to be about 167 million several years previous, which tends to make this new Indian sauropod not only the oldest acknowledged dicraeosaurid but also globally the oldest diplodocoid (broader group which includes dicraeosaurids and other closely linked sauropods). Theories so considerably had recommended that the oldest dicraeosaurid was from China (about 166-164 million a long time outdated).