Teruel-Dinópolis Joint Paleontological Foundation

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As of September 2026: Led the excavation and analysis of the La Tejería Diplodocus

For a century and a half, every Diplodocus skeleton on Earth came from one geological formation in the western United States. On September 15, paleontologists announced the first exception: 14 tail vertebrae from a quarry at La Tejería near El Castellar in eastern Spain, dated to roughly 150 million years ago. That places the most famous long-necked dinosaur in Europe for the first time.

Updated Sep 18