Palaeontologists’ research on nine massive neck vertebrae sheds new light on the giant cretaceous dinosaur alamosaurus sanjuanensis.
The discovery nearly two decades ago of nine beautifully articulated vertebrae at Big Bend National Park is revealing more about a 66 million-year-old sauropod native to Texas and the North American southwest called Alamosaurus sanjuanensis. Palaeontologists from the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas have co-authored an open access scientific paper entitled “An articulated cervical series of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis Gilmore, 1922 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from Texas: new perspective on the relationships of North America's last giant sauropod" in the Journal of Systematic