Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur fossil specimens in Saskatchewan previously unknown in the province, offering new insights into the province’s ecosystem some 75 million years ago.
A team of paleontologists and students from McGill University documented the first fossil specimens of the horned Centrosaurus and the parrot-beaked Citipes elegans while participating in a paleontology field course in Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park along the South Saskatchewan River.
Their findings were published on Oct. 28 in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, shedding light on the ancient ecosystem of Saskatchewan compared to that of neighbouring Alberta.
“Centrosaurus was only definitely known from sites of similar age in Alberta,” said Alexandre Demers-Potvin, one of the authors of the study, in a Nov. 19 release. “Now we report fossils that unequivocally belong to this species from Saskatchewan for the first time.”…