TOMSK, Jan 10 – RIA Tomsk. The new genus of dinosaurs found by scientists of Tomsk State University (TSU) in Siberia got the official name – Sibirotitan, the press service of the university reported on Wednesday.
Earlier it was reported that TSU scientists work not for the first year at coast of Bolshoy Kemchug in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. They found the remains of not opened species titanosaurid near to the village Shestakovo. This species of dinosaurs lived in the southeast of Western Siberia, in a refugiuma – the area where it could endure shocks safely which led to disappearance of its relatives in another part of the planet.
"During the research of fossils paleontologists revealed the anatomic features of dinosaur distinguishing it from other famous congeners. The new species got the name Sibirotitan", – it is said in the statement.
Also it is reported that characteristic feature of the new species is existence of five sacral vertebras, sacral edges focused radially (in the form of a star), and a special crest on a neural arch of a trunk vertebra. Ancient pangolins with such structure of a skeleton still weren't found anywhere."Anatomic features and a binding to the former area of dwelling are recorded in the Latin name of the new species – Sibirotitan astrosacralis. The first part of the name indicates the huge sizes of the dinosaur whose length could reach 20 meters, and the weight of 50 tons", – it is noted in the message.
As the employee of the Department of Paleontology and Historical Geology Sergey Leshchinsky explained RIA Tomsk, the name became official for the new genus and species of dinosaurs after the publication in the scientific magazine Geobios.