Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
Paleontologists from Fundación Dinópolis have identified the first confirmed Diplodocus fossils outside North America — 14 well-preserved tail vertebrae and chevron bones unearthed at La Tejería near El Castellar in Teruel, Spain. The roughly 150-million-year-old sauropod stretched about 25 meters, on par with its American relatives. The find offers some of the strongest evidence yet that dinosaurs crossed temporary land bridges between North America and Europe as the proto-North Atlantic periodically receded during the Late Jurassic.
The outcome of the dig is some of the strongest paleontological evidence for episodes of dispersal and faunal exchange between the two continents across the proto-Atlantic Ocean during the Late Jurassic.
- hackyhacky
> Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain
Another example of quality American production moving overseas. Globalization will be the end of us
- WCSTombs
Apparently I'm a bit slow today, because my brain started completing the headline as "Diplodocus, Long Thought Extinct, ..." before my eyes could finish reading it.
> The animal’s fossilized remains — 14 well-preserved tail vertebrae and several chevron bones — were unearthed at the La Tejería site near the city of El Castellar in the Spanish province of Teruel.
According to Wikipedia (if I'm reading correctly), the chevron bones are also part of the tail [1]. It's pretty cool how such a small part of the skeleton can carry so much information!
- gus_massa
> The Spanish Diplodocus lived roughly 150 million years ago near the end of the Jurassic period.
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> According to the team, the presence of Diplodocus in Iberia offers strong evidence that dinosaurs moved between North America and Europe during that era, likely crossing temporary land bridges that appeared as the proto-North Atlantic Ocean periodically receded.
I want a map! I found this: https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/167017/view Is it the correct map? Is there a land (ice?) bridge between Newfoundland and Portugal? Am I interpreting it correctly?
- embedding-shape
Original article (in Spanish), from the source itself: https://fundaciondinopolis.org/un-descubrimiento-paleontolog...
- ta93754829
Is "American" a nationality where maybe "North American" a geography? I don't think Diplodocus has US citizenship...