A Portuguese man in his back garden when the project accidentally dug up the suspected dinosaur fossil fragments, he immediately asked the relevant units to come to view, after years of research, the archaeological team recently confirmed that this is a "sauropod" dinosaur fossils, and is likely to be the largest dinosaur fossil unearthed in Europe so far.
According to the Guardian, a man in Pombal, a small town in central Portugal, accidentally dug up suspected fossil fragments while working on his back garden in 2017, so he immediately contacted researchers at the University of Lisbon to inspect the site, and then the relevant units formed a team of Portuguese and Spanish archaeologists to investigate.
After years of efforts, the archaeological team revealed earlier this month that this should be a dinosaur of the genus Sauropoda, and speculated that its height is 12 meters, and the full length of the whole body can reach 25 meters, which may be the largest dinosaur fossil ever unearthed in Europe. In addition, the fossil is buried in Jurassic sedimentary rocks, showing that it dates back 150 million years. At present, the dinosaur's vertebrae and ribs have been exposed to the ground after excavations, and the archaeological team says there should be other fossils hidden underground.
Sauropod dinosaurs are the largest of all dinosaurs and the largest land animals ever built, and there are many well-known genera underneath, including the genus brachiosaurus that was discovered this time, as well as the genus Ofsaccus (formerly known as Thunderosaurus), Lepidoptera and so on. Sauropods were grass-type quadrupeds, usually with small heads , long necks , spoon-shaped teeth , large bodies , and long tails; They lived mainly in the late Jurassic period, about 100 million to 160 million years ago.
