ScienceTeruel fossils may mark the first Diplodocus discovery outside North America
Science Media Centre Spain reports that the roughly 150-million-year-old remains include 14 exceptionally well-preserved tail vertebrae and several other tail bones.
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Science Media Centre Spain reports that remains found at La Tejería in El Castellar, Teruel, could be the first Diplodocus discovered outside North America. The research was published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. The outlet quotes the study’s authors as saying bone comparisons and evolutionary analyses consistently placed the specimen in the genus Diplodocus. The report describes the find as evidence of animal dispersal between the continents during the Late Jurassic.