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Who was the biggest dinosaur in Lower Saxony?


















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interview with the paleontologist and dinosaur expert, Dr. Ute Richter, Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover

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Question: Who was the biggest dinosaur in Lower Saxony?

Answer: The largest dinosaur was a plant-eating sauropod Security (lizard pelvic dinosaurs), probably the North American Diplodocus or Apatosaurus was similar. He had a long neck and an even longer tail and could be up to 20 feet long and weigh 15 tons. The body without a neck and tail was only about 5 meters long! His four-legged gear probably resembled that of a leisurely day Elephants. All that we know of running for example from Münchehagen finds that these animals have left back then, about 140 million years (Lower Cretaceous), in the soft sandy mud. The individual, round-oval or rounded-triangular footprints are about 90 cm long and 85 cm wide. Based on these and on the basis of the distances between the footprints (step length), one can roughly calculate the waist of the animal that produced the track. Based on the hips can be finally determined, after considering the proportions, for example, shows the skeleton of an Apatosaurus, the full size. Dinosaur bones have been in this type of Niedersachsen has not been found. Then serve to reconstruct the complete skeletons from other sites, for example, North America, where the bones of Apatosaurus have been found many times.

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Literature:

Fischer, R., 1998: The natural monument "Münchehagen dinosaur tracks." - Communications of the Geological Institute of the University of Hannover, 37, 125 pages; Hannover.

Fischer, R. & Thies, D., 1993: The dinosaur museum and the "natural monument dinosaur tracks Münchehagen. A leader. - 60 pages, Dinosaur Park GmbH, Münchehagen.

Parker, S., 2004: Dinosaurs. - Weltbild Verlag (ISBN 3-8289-6031-6)

Probst, E. & Windolf, R., 1993: Dinosaurs in Germany. - 316 pages; C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich.