Colombian dinosaur lastly recognized due to 2016 peace settlement
A peace settlement in Colombia meant researchers may return to the positioning the place a sauropod fossil was dug up in 1943 and identify it as a brand new species, Perijasaurus lapaz
The Serranía del Perijá mountain vary the place the dinosaur, named Perijasaurus, was discovered Jeff Wilson Mantilla
A sauropod dinosaur has been named as a brand new species practically 80 years after it was first found in a distant Colombian mountain vary.
The half-metre-long vertebral column of the dinosaur was dug up by a geologist working for an oil firm within the northern Colombian state of Cesar in 1943. It has been saved on the College of California, Berkeley, ever since.
It was preliminarily described in 1955 as a sauropod, a part of the group …
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