Fundación Dinópolis names the first Diplodocus fossils outside North America
Sci.News on 14 September 2026 said a Teruel team at Fundación Dinópolis assigned fossils from El Castellar to Diplodocus, the first such assignment outside North America in that write-up. It gave 14 tail bones, an estimated length of 25 m, and an age of about 150 million years. Four other publisher fetches failed. No second news body was retained.
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Fourteen vertebrae at El Castellar
Sci.News on 14 September 2026 wrote a Diplodocus assignment from the El Castellar dig in Teruel. The institution is Fundación Dinópolis. The report calls it the first confirmed assignment outside North America. The counted pieces are 14 tail bones. The length estimate is 25 metres. The age is about 150 million years. Sergio Sánchez Fenollosa and Alberto Cobos are named. For the reader the first result is that the claim sits on a science-news site. There is no Independent, Yahoo, Live Science or Phys.org body. The card does not write those sites as if they were in hand.[1]
DOI 10.1080/02724634.2026.2718423 is in press
The same site says the work is due to appear in a vertebrate palaeontology journal. The citation is written as DOI 10.1080/02724634.2026.2718423. The full text was not retrieved; the card does not cite a paper body. For the reader the second result is that the news arrives with a citation line and that an open full text is absent from this file. The tail-bone count and the length estimate are absent from this passage. The intercontinental-crossing gloss is a sentence on the same site, not a second newspaper.[1]
One science site, four failed fetches
The source is one: Sci.News. 14 tail bones, 25 metres, 150 million years, El Castellar and DOI 10.1080/02724634.2026.2718423 come from that site. Four other fetches left no body. For the science desk the meaning is that a science-news item tying the Diplodocus name to a Spanish dig is now public. The card does not confirm that with a second newspaper. 14, 25 and 150 are Sci.News's own figures. The filing is 14 September 2026.[1]
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