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Top Stories Tamfitronics Paleontologists have unearthed the skeletal remains from a previously unknown species of lithostrotian titanosaur at the fossil site of Lo Hueco, Cuenca, Spain.An artist’s reconstruction of Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra. Image credit: José Antonio Peñas Artero.Qunkasaura pintiquiniestra lived in Europe around 75 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.The ancient creature was a member of Saltasauridae, a superfamily of titanosaurian dinosaurs within the clade Lithostrotia.“Titanosauria was a successful group of sauropod dinosaurs that experienced an important event of diversification in the Early Cretaceous, with the establishment of several distinct lineages including Lithostrotia,” said University of Lisbon’s Dr. Pedro Mocho and his colleagues.“Lithostrotians dominated the Late Cretaceous sauropod fauna and were represented by two main groups, the saltasauroids, and colossosaurs, including from small forms to the largest known land animals.”“They survived until the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary,...