Giant sauropod dinosaur: hip bone length of Fusui dragon 145 cm.

Fusui Dragon is a sauropod dinosaur, which was born in the early Cretaceous 65438+200 million years ago and was unearthed in China in 200 1 year, so Fusui was named dinosaur. It is said that the length of its hip fossils can reach 145 cm, so it was once considered as one of the largest sauropod dinosaurs born in early Cretaceous in China.

The shape characteristics of Fusui dragon The biggest feature of Fusui dragon is that the hip bone protrudes and the abdomen and back are strongly outward. The whole waist and buttocks are protruding semicircles, but the edges will have a strong acute angle, which will make the abdomen concave inward. Secondly, the hip bone of Fusui dragon is obviously larger than that of other sauropods, and its length of 145cm almost exceeds that of Ba Long's 135cm. It was considered by experts such as Mo Jinyou at that time to be the largest sauropod dinosaur in China in Cretaceous, but it was later unearthed in Huang Helong and compared.

The name of Fusui dragon comes from the model species, and its name is Zhang Fusui dragon, which was actually named after Zhao Xijin, a very famous paleontologist in China at that time. Fusui? It refers to the original discovery place of this dinosaur fossil, namely Fusui County, China, so it was officially named by experts such as Mo Jinyou in 2006. Zhang Fu Suilong? What does Latin mean? Fusui lizard? .

Fossils of Fusui Dragon The first batch of fossils of Fusui Dragon included the left hip bone, the left pubic bone, three anterior vertebrae, several ribs and the left femur. From the hip bone of 145 cm, it can be seen that Fusui dragon belongs to a kind of dragon dinosaur, and most of the dragon dinosaurs unearthed in China are located in the north, such as Northeast Dragon, so Fusui dragon is a relatively rare dragon unearthed in the south.

The first batch of Fusui dragon fossils were unearthed in Fusui County, Chongzuo City, Guangxi, China. At that time, these fossils were buried in the Tongnapai Formation, so they were judged to be Cretaceous dinosaurs. At that time, experts such as Mo Jinyou found that although Fusui dragon was a dragon, it was different from other dragons in that its dorsal rib had no air cavity structure and its coccyx was flatter, so it was probably the most primitive one.