The interest and passion of the scientific community increases more and more when new findings that allow us to know how people lived on Earth before. In this case, they discovered in Spain eggs dinosaur from 72 million years ago.
They were found in the province of Guadalajara, within the Poyos Cretaceous siteand it was possible thanks to a project by investigation financed by the Government of Castilla-La Mancha.
The investigation was carried out by Francisco Ortega y Fernando Sanguinothe paleontologists responsible for the discovery of the four fossilized titanosaur dinosaur eggs after an exhaustive excavation campaign.
They stand out for their characteristic reddish color and perfect state of conservation, despite being eggs from 72 million years ago.
Furthermore, the Paleontological Museum of Castilla-La Mancha (MUPA)located in Cuenca, incorporated this find to his permanent collection.
He UNED Evolutionary Biology Group was the one who coordinated the research published in the specialized journal Cretaceous Research and through it the presence of Fusioolithus baghensisa common species in more recent records.
However, it also describes a new ootaxon: Litosoolithus poyosi It is characterized by large eggs, thin shells, low porosity and scattered ornamentation.
«The coexistence of two different types of eggs at the same stratigraphic level constitutes an extremely rare event, which makes the Poyos site a world reference,» according to DOWN.
Los titanosaur dinosaurs were a group of prominently sized herbivorous sauropods that were present in the terrestrial ecosystem during the Cretaceous period. This species had the possibility of exceeding 15 meters in length and 20 tons in weight.
According to experts, the hypothesis that several species of titanosaurios coexist in the same region due to the morphological differences that they could notice from the eggs found in Spain.
If this belief is confirmed, the Poyos Cretaceous site It would be one of the most important in Europe for the study of diversity.
