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(STILLWATER, Oklahoma, Jan. 29, 2021) — Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (OSU-CHS) paleontologist Dr. Anne Weil made a statement to contextualize and localize recent high-profile news stories about the discovery of a new sauropod dinosaur species in Argentina.
“This is a big find, literally, it’s quite large. Oklahoma is known for its sauropod dinosaurs as well,” Weil said. “The new giant titanosaur from Patagonia is in the same group as Sauroposeidon, another giant sauropod that lived about 15 million years earlier in Oklahoma.”
Every summer Dr. Weil leads an excavation in Cimarron County, Oklahoma which yields skeletons of another sauropod dinosaur only distantly related to the newly discovered species. OSU-CHS has one of the larger and more active groups of vertebrate paleontologists in North America.
Oklahoma State University is a modern land-grant university that prepares students for success. OSU has more than 34,000 students across its five-campus system and more than 24,000 on its combined Stillwater and Tulsa campuses, with students from all 50 states and around 100 nations. Established in 1890, OSU has graduated more than 275,000 students to serve the state of Oklahoma, the nation and the world.
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