He Mamenchisaurus Sinocanadorum was a sauropod that had perhaps the longest neck ever recorded in dinosaur: 15.1 meters.
According to a study published on Wednesday (March 15) in the Jurassic, he lived about 162 million years ago in the Jurassic in what is now the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwest China. Journal of Systematic Paleontology.
“Long neck Mamenchisaurus Sinocanadorumlike other sauropods, would make the animal an efficient forager, able to graze the huge volumes of food needed to feed such a large body before moving on to the next vegetation site,” said the first author of the study. Andrew Moorepaleontologist at Stony Brook University in New York.
Researchers discover fossils M. sinocanadorum in 1987, but they didn’t find much, just a jawbone, a few cervical vertebrae, and cervical ribs. However, this was enough to tell paleontologists a lot about the long-dead dinosaur. “All sauropods had long necks, but mamenchisaurids were outstanding, with some of the most extreme neck proportions in the history of terrestrial life,” Moore said.
Why is it unknown M. sinocanadorum it had such a large neck, but “maybe that made them much more efficient at foraging,” Moore said. The sporty long neck may also have helped the giant herbivore shed excess body heat by increasing its surface area, much as elephants’ huge ears help keep them cool.
From my side, Mike TaylorResearch Fellow, Department of Geosciences, University of Bristol, UK, commented:
In addition to the mechanical complexity of maintaining such a long neck, sauropods also had to “breathe through these necks, circulate blood through them, innervate them, transfer food into them, regulate their temperature, and much more.” “These are truly the most amazing structures in all of biology.”
Source: Digital Trends
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