” Huge ! The Camarasaurian scapula ”: in Angeac, they exhly an imposing dinosaur bone in perfect condition

Paleontologists first unearthed. However, under kilos of clay, vertebrae still connected to each other, gigantic, several tens of centimeters wide. Furthermore, So this is a spectacular scapula of this same dinosaur. Similarly, A sauropod, herbivore, almost twenty meters long which lived between the Jurassic and the Cretaceous, about 140 million years ago.

Morphologically close to the North American genre Camarasaurus, the Camarasaur could reach 15 to 20 meters long.

The remains of this animal had already been discovered on the site last year. Furthermore, In recent days, the excavations have uncovered several new pieces, including three back vertebrae. “These animals have a dozen dorsal vertebrae. and we must miss three of them,” explained a few days ago, in CL, Eliott Sabourin, Paleontology student, volunteer on the site. “We have almost the whole back of the beast. Even if I have been coming for three years, it’s still as exceptional. »»

Jean-François Tournepiche lists the elements found: “The remains of the femurs. the spine, the vertebrae, pieces of the basin, and therefore the hindquarters and the trunk that begin to appear”.