On Wednesday, a team of paleontologists found a new long-necked dinosaur species in Argentina.
The bones were discovered near a salt flat in the Anacleto Formation in northern Patagonia, Argentina.
They were found among fossils of ancient snails, garfishes, crocodile relatives, clams, and freshwater turtles.
The Chadititan calvoi, or “titan of the salt” could have been 22 feet-long and lived about 78 million years ago.
The new species of titanosaur is described in a study published March 5 in the journal Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales.
The paleontologists believe that Chadititan was a small and slender dinosaur, with elongated vertebrae and delicate limbs that set it apart from other titanosaurs.
It belonged to the Rinconsaurian group.
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