Meet Protathlitis cinctorrensis—a 32 to 36-foot-long Cretaceous 'champion.'
The fragments were dated to between 127 and 126 million years ago, during the late Barremian or Early Cretaceous period. The team estimates that the new specimen was around 32 to 36 feet long—about the length of a telephone pole.
The team compared this newly-named specimen to data on other spinosaurs to figure out its evolutionary relationship to other species within the family of dinosaurs. They believe that this new dinosaur appeared in the Early Cretaceous in a large area of land in the Northern hemisphere called Laurasia.
“Our research demonstrates that two subfamilies of spinosaur occupied western Europe during the Early Cretaceous before later migrating to Africa and Asia,” Andrés said. “
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