Giant dinosaur bone found in southwestern France

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Source: https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/paleontologists-find-giant-dinosaur-bone-in-southwestern-france/

Paleontologists find giant dinosaur bone in southwestern France

Published 1 day ago on July 27, 2019 By Agence France-Presse

French paleontologists found the thigh bone of a giant sauropod, an herbivorous dinosaur dating from the late Jurassic
era, at an excavation site in southwestern France this week.


The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwestern France where remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have been dug up since 2010.

The two-meter long femur at the Angeac-Charente site is thought to have belonged to a sauropod, herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails which were widespread in the late Jurassic era, over 140 million years ago.

“This is a major discovery,” Ronan Allain, a paleontologist at the National History Museum of Paris told Reuters. “I was especially amazed by the state of preservation of that femur.”

“These are animals that probably weighed 40 to 50 tonnes.”

Allain said scientists at the site near the city of Cognac have found more than 7,500 fossils of more than 40 different species since 2010, making it one of the largest such finds in Europe.

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Giant dinosaur bone found in southwestern France

 

[Laura]

Looks pretty fresh to me!

 

[Cosmos]

Apparently it is also the biggest dinosaur ever found with the bone alone weighing 500kg! Fossilized of course, so it might’ve weight far less when it was part of a living dino.

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[Palinurus]

Looks pretty fresh to me!

From the second linked article:

Allain called the find a major discovery, citing the femur's good state of preservation, which rarely happens in the remains of large animals.
"We can see the insertions of muscles and tendons and scars," Allain said. "This is rare for big pieces which tend to collapse in on themselves and fragment."