The new species has now been named “qunkasaura pintiquiniestra,” an hommage to the town of Cuenca, where the dinosaurs’ skeleton was discovered, as well as the painter Antonio Saura and Queen Pintiquiniestra, a character from the 16th-century book, Amadis of Greece, which was also referenced in the famed Spanish novel Don Quixote.
This herbivorous dinosaur roamed the earth around 75 million years ago, measuring 20m long and weighing approximately 15 tonnes, according to researchers in the science journal Nature Communications Biology.
This recent discovery could shed light on how dinosaurs became extinct millions of years ago and how, contrary to what was believed until now, the Titanosaurus, which is linked to Asian and North American dinosaurs. Entered Europe at the end of the Cretaceous period.
