<p>Paleontologists in Argentina have unveiled a model replica of a recently discovered dinosaur known as alnashetri cerropoliciensis, belonging to the theropod genus of dinosaur.</p><br /><p>While the most famous theropod is undoubtedly the tyrannosaurus rex, the massive meat-eating dinosaur that roamed the earth about 65 million years ago, the alnashetri is about the size of a hen and is thought to be much older than its giant cousin.</p><br /><p>The fossils of the tiny dinosaur were discovered in La Buitrera in Argentina's Rio Negro province in an area known as the Candeleros Formation - a rock formation running through the provinces of Rio Negro, Neuquen and Mendoza and the site of a vast array fossil finds.</p><br /><p>The Alnashetri is believed to have lived about 97 million years ago in the same period as the </p><br /><p>Giganotosaurus, a massive carnivorous dinosaur that was also discovered in Argentina's fossil-laden Candeleros Formation.</p>
