In Brazil, found the remains of an ancestor of dinosaurs – RSUTE

Moscow / 14.03.2016 2:00 / RSUTE.ru

An international research team said it found out early last year in the south of Brazil, the remains of a reptile have age 250 million years old and belong to the reptile that lived in the area before the dinosaurs. According to Tass, creepy given the name Teyujagua paradoxa, which means “the paradoxical ferocious reptile».

An international team of scientists during a large-scale research work carefully analyzed fragments of the skull and other bones that were found during excavations on the territory of Rio Grande do Sul -. one of the Brazilian states

This new and rather unusual appearance immediately called unique, and later it was decided to give the name Teyujagua paradoxa. The world’s leading experts believe that this animal had four limbs, and as for the length of his body, she could reach about one and a half meters.

Reptile Teyujagua paradoxa, most likely, was a predator, because it indicates pointed the shape of its teeth. Scientists are reminded that the huge reptiles lived on our planet more 250 million years ago, and experts are hoping that this will give them the opportunity to follow and analyze carefully the whole process of evolution with the emergence of dinosaurs.

Reptiles and their next of kin archosauromorpha dinosaurs became the dominant form of life on land and in the end turned into a dinosaur.

Dr Philip Pinheiro from the University of Rio Grande do Sul was among a group of Brazilian paleontologists who discovered the well-preserved fossil . remains of reptiles near the town of San Francisco de Assis in the south of the country

«As soon as we saw for the first time this magnificent skull, partly hidden rock, we realized that we stumbled upon something incredible”, – the scientist says.

«Exploring the remains in the laboratory and slowly removing the fat, we do not cease to be amazed. This pet has features never previously observed, which indicates that it is a unique place on the evolutionary tree of vertebrates, “- says he

Reptile teyuguana very different from other resources in the same period

<.. p> its anatomical features put it between more primitive reptiles and arhozauropodobnymi that gave rise to in the future all the dinosaurs and pterosaurs, birds and crocodiles.