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Fossil of new dinosaur species unearthed in Northwest China, findings to overturn old theory of dino
By Yin Han Source:Global Times Published: 2018/7/25 21:43:40
The "amazing Lingwu dragons" lived in the Ningxia area 174 million years ago.
Photo: Courtesy of Xu Xing
Chinese paleontologists have unearthed fossil skeletons of a new species of dinosaur in Northwest China and in so doing overturned the commonly held assumption that the diplodocoid never lived in East Asia.
There is even a possibility, as more fossils emerge, that the diplodocoid could be shown to have originated in Asia, Xu Xing, the head of the research program, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
Xu and his team's findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Communication.
The skeletons of the new species, Lingwulong shenqi, or "amazing Lingwu dragon," were excavated in the suburbs of Lingwu, an important industrial city of the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.
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