110m-year-old dinosaur fossils found
published : 8 Feb 2024 at 06:12
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Chakrapan Natanri
A new set of dinosaur fossils, estimated to be up to 110 million years old, has been found in Nam Phong district of Khon Kaen.
They are believed to be sauropod and spinosaurid fossils.
According to the Department of Mineral Resources, a team led by Sasa-On Khansubha from the Sirindhorn Dinosaur Museum, and officers from the Mineral Resources Office Region 2 (Khon Kaen) conducted a survey on the fossil sites.
The fossils consist of the spine of a sauropod, a long-neck herbivore that lived during the Late Triassic to Late Cretaceous era; and the teeth of a spinosaurid, a fish-eating dinosaur species that lived during the Cretaceous era.
The team also identified a fragment of the ribs of an unidentified creature during their survey, said Ms Sasa-On.
Ms Sasa-On said the Dinosaur Museum has collected the fossils for preservation while sending some to the Muang Wan Municipal Office to display.
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Vocabulary
- fossil: the remains of an animal or a plant which have become hard and turned into rock - ซากพืชหรือสัตว์ที่เป็นหิน, ซากฟอสซิล
- fragment: a small piece of a large object that has broken, often into a lot of pieces - ส่วนที่แตกออกมา
- herbivore: an animal that eats only plants - สัตว์ที่กินพืชเป็นอาหาร
- preservation: keeping something as it is, especially in order to prevent it from being damaged or destroyed - การสงวน
- rib: a bone that curves round from your back to your chest - ซี่โครง
- sauropod (noun): a very large dinosaur with a long neck and tail, small head and four very large legs -
- spine: the row of small bones that are connected together down the middle of the back - กระดูกสันหลัง
- survey: the act of examining and recording the measurements, features, etc. of an area of land - การสำรวจ, การหาข้อมูล
- unidentified: not known (who someone is) - ซึ่งไม่สามารถระบุชื่อได้
