DINOSAUR Large North American characters such as Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops are often the main characters in various films today. But did you know that these are just some of the types of dinosaurs on Earth. Their much smaller herds, native to Europe, were the subject of renewed attention after the publication of the magazine Fossil Record, which further explored their life on the island.
In the Late Cretaceous, between 100 and 66 million years ago, Europe was very different from today, in the form of a continent with large and small islands in shallow tropical seas. Therefore, the types of dinosaurs living in this area are different from those on Earth. They included small to medium-sized theropods, large-bodied and armored ankylosaurs, sauropods with characteristic long necks, duck-billed hadrosaurs, and rhabdodontids.
According to a Fossil Record study cited by Popular science, Thursday (7/9/2023), an important family in European islands in the Late Cretaceous was Rhabdodontidae. This family consists of herbivores that were typically small to medium sized by dinosaur standards and ranged from 6.5 to nearly 20 feet in length.
“They were probably two-legged herbivores, characterized by a rather stocky body, with strong hind limbs, short forelimbs, a long tail and a relatively large triangular skull that tapered towards the front and ended in a narrow snout.” said Felix Augustin, one of the authors of the study and a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Tübingen.
The fact that these dinosaurs had relatively robust skulls, strong jaws, large teeth and sharp beaks covered in keratin suggests that they were well adapted to eating tough plants.
Other evidence shows that this animal is a social animal. This is based on fossil remains found in groups with many other dinosaurs of various ages. Fossils of Rhabdodontids, or “bar-toothed” dinosaurs, have also been found in Europe only in rocks dating back 86-66 million years, indicating that they were endemic to the Late Cretaceous European archipelago.
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