The skeleton of a long-necked dinosaur that has been residing in a university museum in for 100 years is actually that of a previously unknown species, a new study has revealed.The skeleton was found in Trossingen, south-western Germany, in 1922, and is now part of the University of Tübingen's paleontological collection.At the time, it was identified as belonging to a Plateosaurus – a herbivorous dinosaur with a long neck and grasping hands that lived during the Late Triassic period, around 214 to 204 million years ago.
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