Via International Science Times:
... The discovery of the fossil remains of a plant-eating sauropod called Yongjinglong datangi by a team of University of Pennsylvania paleontologists in northwestern China may revise the current view that sauropods were predominant in the Jurassic age but were nearly extinct by the onset of the Cretaceous.ADVERTISEMENT
The Yongjinglong datangi, according to a new study published in the online journal PLOS ONE, roamed the earth through to the Early Cretaceous period, more than 100 million years ago. "We now realize that, in other parts of the world, particularly in South America and Asia, sauropod dinosaurs continued to flourish in the Cretaceous, so the thought that they were minor components is no longer a tenable view," said Dr. Peter Dodson of the University of Pennsylvania, in a press release....
