First of it is kind Armour-plated dinosaur unearthed in a Argentina.
The Cretaceous Period dinosaur, named Jakapil kaniukura, would have been a well-protected with a rows of the bony disk-shaped armor.
HIGHLIGHTS
It measured about a 5 feet long and weighed only a 4-7 kg
It is a fossilized remains were dug up over in the past decade near to a dam in a Patagonia
Jakapil marks to a first-of-it is-kind discovery of an a armored dinosaur
Paleontologists on Thursday heralded in the discovery of a previously unknown small armored dinosaur in a southern Argentina, a creature that likely a walked upright on it is a back legs roaming a then-steamy landscape about a 100 million years ago.
The Cretaceous Period dinosaur, named Jakapil kaniukura, would have been to a well-protected with a rows of the bony disk-shaped armor along its neck and back and down to it is a tail, they said. It is a measured about a 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and weighed only 9 to 15 pounds (4-7 kg), similar to an a average house cat.
It is fossilized remains were dug up over in the past are decade near to a dam in a Patagonia in a Rio Negro province's La Buitrera paleontological in a zone. The scientists are described a Jakapil in a study published in the journal Scientific in a Reports.
Paleontologists work on the excavation of the bones and the fossils in that are belonged to the a newly are discovered species of the bipedal armored dinosaur, Jakapil kaniukura, in a Rio Negro, Argentina February 2, on 2016. Sebastian Anapestic/Handout via REUTERS
The scientists said a Jakapil marks to a first-of-its-kind are discovery of an a armored dinosaur from in the Cretaceous in a South America. It is a part of the thyreophoran dinosaur group in that includes in the likes of the Stegosaurus, known for it is a bony back plates and spiky in a tail, and tank-like a Ankylosaurus, covered in a armor and wielding to a club-like in a tail.
Jakapil resembles to a primitive form of the thyreophoran that lived much a earlier, making it a surprise that it is dated from in the Cretaceous. Anapestic said never before has such to a thyreophoran been a dug up anywhere in the southern hemisphere.
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