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News Release 17-081
Paleontologists discover new species of sauropod dinosaur in Tanzania
Fossil remains recovered from 70 to 100 million-year-old rocks in southwestern Tanzania
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Reconstruction of the new titanosaur and the landscape in which it lived, in what is now Tanzania.
Credit: Mark Witton, www.markwitton.com
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Wide shot of the southwestern Tanzania locality from which the new dinosaur was excavated.
Credit: Eric Roberts
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The research team at the quarry site in which the dinosaur skeleton was found.
Credit: Leigh Lawrence
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Excavation of Shingopana songwensis showing ribs and other bones being prepared for plaster-jacketing.
Credit: Nancy Stevens
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View of the scientists' field camp in the Rukwa Rift Basin in southwestern Tanzania.
Credit: Patrick O'Connor
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A typical view, the researchers say, of sunset over the Rukwa Rift Basin.
Credit: Patrick O'Connor
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