Rare fossil of young dinosaur
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A team of Chinese paleontologists discovered an early-Jurassic fossil of a young dinosaur in southwest China鈥檚 Yunnan Province.
The specimen was about 1.7 meters long, and the shape of its teeth suggest the dinosaur was herbivorous, according to the study published in the journal Acta Geologica Sinica.
Bone histological studies showed that the dinosaur was about three years old, said Bi Shundong with Yunnan University, an author of the research.
The bones of juvenile dinosaurs are slender and not easily preserved in the stratum, so researchers knew little about their morphological characteristics, Bi said.
The team inferred the dinosaur may have drowned in flooding, allowing most of its bones to be preserved.
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