BUENOS AIRES: A website online containing the 220-million-year-old fossilised remains of just about a dozen dinosaurs has been discovered in western Argentina, researchers said Wednesday.
"There are almost ten different individuals, it's a mass of bones, there's practically no sediment," said Argentinian paleontologist Ricardo Martinez.
"It's very impressive."
According to Martinez, of the University of San Juan, the fossils are approximately 220 million years old, belonging to "an era of which we know little".
"This discovery is doubly important because there are at least seven or eight individuals of dicynodonts, the ancestors of mammals, the size of an ox," he said.
He said there were also remains of archosaurs, reptiles that may be the ancestors of significant crocodiles "that we do not know about yet".
The in finding was discovered in September last yr in San Juan province, about 1,100 kilometres (680 miles) west of Buenos Aires.
The website online is between one and two metres (yards) in diameter and about the same depth, leading scientists to invest it was a former consuming hollow at a time of significant drought, and the creatures died of weak point at the spot.
Argentina has been a wealthy source of fossils from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras over the years - maximum, of creatures not discovered in the northern hemisphere.
"There are almost ten different individuals, it's a mass of bones, there's practically no sediment," said Argentinian paleontologist Ricardo Martinez.
"It's very impressive."
According to Martinez, of the University of San Juan, the fossils are approximately 220 million years old, belonging to "an era of which we know little".
"This discovery is doubly important because there are at least seven or eight individuals of dicynodonts, the ancestors of mammals, the size of an ox," he said.
He said there were also remains of archosaurs, reptiles that may be the ancestors of significant crocodiles "that we do not know about yet".
The in finding was discovered in September last yr in San Juan province, about 1,100 kilometres (680 miles) west of Buenos Aires.
The website online is between one and two metres (yards) in diameter and about the same depth, leading scientists to invest it was a former consuming hollow at a time of significant drought, and the creatures died of weak point at the spot.
Argentina has been a wealthy source of fossils from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous eras over the years - maximum, of creatures not discovered in the northern hemisphere.
Scientists unearth 220 million-year-old dinosaur fossils in Argentina
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