{"id":255266,"date":"2023-08-08T20:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=255266"},"modified":"2023-08-08T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:54:48","slug":"in-jaisalmer-fossils-scientists-find-a-new-dinosaur-species-name-it-after-thar-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-jaisalmer-fossils-scientists-find-a-new-dinosaur-species-name-it-after-thar-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"In Jaisalmer fossils, scientists find a new dinosaur species, name it after Thar desert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>In Jaisalmer fossils, scientists find a new dinosaur species, name it after Thar desert<\/b><b>\u201d\u00a0 <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> TOI n 8th August 2023.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists from IIT-Roorkee and Geological Survey of India(GSI) have discovered the oldest fossil remains of a dinosaur species in Jaisalmer.They have named it \u2018Tharosaurus indicus\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Tharosaurus indicus?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tharosaurus indicus is the name given to the fossil remains of a long-necked, plant-eating dicraeosaurid dinosaur found in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been named \u2018Tharosaurus indicus\u2019 as the first name refers to the \u2018Thar desert\u2019 where the fossils were found and the second after its country of origin.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Why is this finding significant?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>First Time found in India:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The dicraeosaurid dinosaurs have been found previously in North and South Americas, Africa and China. But such fossils were not known from India. This is the first time it has been discovered in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Oldest known diplodocoid dinosaur<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The rocks in which the fossils of Tharosaurus indicus were found are dated to be around 167 million years old, which makes this new Indian sauropod not only the oldest known dicraeosaurid dinosaur but also globally the oldest diplodocoid (broader group which includes dicraeosaurids and other closely related sauropods).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Note: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Theories so far had suggested that the oldest dicraeosaurid was from China (about 166-164 million years old).<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cIn Jaisalmer fossils, scientists find a new dinosaur species, name it after Thar desert\u201d\u00a0 published in TOI n 8th August 2023. What is the News? Scientists from IIT-Roorkee and Geological Survey of India(GSI) have discovered the oldest fossil remains of a dinosaur species in Jaisalmer.They have named&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/in-jaisalmer-fossils-scientists-find-a-new-dinosaur-species-name-it-after-thar-desert\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In Jaisalmer fossils, scientists find a new dinosaur species, name it after Thar desert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,11212,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-255266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-history-and-art-culture-in-news","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}