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The prehistoric fossil is located south of Brazil

 

UFRG researchers discovered the fossil of an unprecedented prehistoric species in Santa Cruz Do Sul

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Researchers at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) have discovered a new prehistoric species in Brazil. The fossil, which consists of waist bones, was found in the municipality of Santa Cruz do Sul and recently detailed in an article in the magazine Scientific reports.

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  • The fossil of an unprecedented prehistoric species was found in the south of Brazil;
  • The discovery was made by UFRGS researchers and was called Itaguyra hidden;
  • The copy belongs to the group of Silesauros, who, in Brazil, is found only in Rio Grande do Sul;
  • The fossil is already shown and may reveal new information about the past of the Brazilian region.
A new prehistoric species was discovered in Rio Grande do Sul. (Image: Mauricio Garcia and Matheus Gadelha)

According to the team, the fossil, which was called Itaguyra hidden – He lived about 237 million years ago in the Middle Triassic and belongs to a new species of Silessauro. The group consisted of about 1 meter reptiles, with long limbs, jaw nozzle and insectivorous or herbivorous eating habits.

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The unpublished fossil was next to the bones of other animals

In a statement, Francesco Battista, co -author of the article, explains that the name of the new species “is linked to how the fossil was again discovered.” To Tupi, Ita Means “stone” and Guyra Means “bird”. Already hiddenLatin for “Hidden” comes from the fact that the fossil was hidden “in the bones of other animals.”

It is worth mentioning that in Brazil the fossils of Silessaurs are only in Rio Grande do Sul. Some examples are those Gatavus antiquus and the Gondwanax paraisensisof the middle Triassic, or Amanasaurus nesbitti and Sacisaurus Shafisisof the upper Triassic.

Comparison of the size of the silences and humans. (Image: Nobu Tamura, Petrified Forest/Wikimedia Commons)

The fossil located to the south of Brazil is already exposed

The discovery of I. Occult Should provide new views during the animal’s period. “It is another brick located in the construction of a landscape on the fauna, the environment and the climate of the past of Rio Grande Sul. And, as we all know, only when we look at the dynamics of the earth and life in the past that we can understand the future of our planet,” says Hector Francischini, co -author of the study.

It I. Occult He has already won an artistic reconstruction and is currently shown at Irajá Damiani Pinto Paleontology Museum, which is on the UFRGS Valley Campus.

 

 

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