Mexican paleontologists identify new species of dinosaur

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Paleontologists identified a new species of dinosaur after a specimen from about 73 million years ago was found in northern Mexico, the country's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said Thursday.

The scientists said the conditions in which the dino was found explain its preservation.

"About 72 or 73 million years ago, a huge herbivore dinosaur died in what must have been a body of water full of sediment, so that its body was quickly covered by the earth and could be preserved through the ages," the institute said in a statement.

The animal is called Tlatolophus galorum. Its tail was discovered first, in the General Cepeda area of the northern state of Coahuila in 2013.

https://phys.org/news/2021-05-mexican-paleontologists-dinosaur-species.html

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667121001312?