As part of the onsite research team, Malafia added that “This mode of preservation is relatively uncommon in the fossil record of dinosaurs, in particular sauropods, from the Portuguese Upper Jurassic.”
And she pointed out that the area may have more significant findings.
“The research in the Monte Agudo paleontological locality confirms that the region of Pombal has an important fossil record of Late Jurassic vertebrates, which in the last decades has provided the discovery of abundant materials very significant for the knowledge of the continental faunas that inhabited the Iberian Peninsula at about 145 million years ago”, Malafaia added.
Sauropod dinosaur
According to the American Museum of Natural History brachiosaurus sauropods walked on four legs. And the plant-eaters often used their long necks to eat from tall trees.
The brachiosaurus sauropod with immensely long necks and tails is estimated to be one of the largest dinosaurs ever discovered. The word “sauropod” is Greek for “lizard foot.”
