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Article: Beijing, Oct 26 (PTI) Chinese geologists have discovered a new species of fossilised dinosaur in Lanzhou Basin in northwest China's Gansu Province, which lived 100 million years ago.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
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- October 26, 2005
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The scientists, who named the new dinosaur species 'Lanzhoumagniden', say it lived on the earth about 100 million years ago and is a kind of plant-eating dinosaur with huge teeth.
The single biggest tooth of the dinosaur is 14 cm long and 7.5 cm wide, the biggest known in the world, said Li Daqing, a research fellow with the Geology and Minerals Prospecting Institute of the Gansu Provincial Geology and Minerals Bureau.
Li said, the dinosaur's lower jaw is one meter long, with 14 tooth slots on each side and a single tooth slot is four cm wide, claiming this has also been discovered for the first time in the world.
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