Newly Discovered Dinosaur Fossils Offer Insights Into Ancient Saskatchewan

Newly Discovered Dinosaur Fossils Offer Insights Into Ancient Saskatchewan
A team of researchers and university students discover Saskatchewan’s first Centrosaurus and Citipes elegans fossils. Their findings were published in October 2024. McGill University/Handout photo
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Researchers in Saskatchewan have unearthed two dinosaur fossil specimens previously unknown in the province, offering new insights into the region’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.