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SCIENCE
Volume 314, Issue 5807, Pages 1925-1927Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132885
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Fossils of a giant sauropod dinosaur, Turiasaurus riodevensis, have been recovered from terrestrial deposits of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary) of Riodeva (Teruel Province, Spain). Its humerus length ( 1790 millimeters) and estimated mass ( 40 to 48 metric tons) indicate that it may have been the most massive terrestrial animal in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the fossil represents a member of a hitherto unrecognized group of primitive European eusauropods that evolved in the Jurassic.
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