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IMAGE: (here a team from the Aathal dinosaur museum in Wyoming, co-author Hans-Jakob Siber front center) often belong to different animals. view more
Credit: (c) Sauriermuseum Aathal
Fossil sites sometimes resemble a living room table on which half a dozen different jigsaw puzzles have been dumped: It is often difficult to say which bone belongs to which animal. Together with colleagues from Switzerland, researchers from the University of Bonn have now presented a method that allows a more certain answer to this question. Their results are published in the journal
Palaeontologia Electronica.
Fossilized dinosaur bones are relatively rare. But if any are found, it is often in large quantities. Many sites contain the remains of dozens of animals, explains Prof. Dr. Martin Sander from the Institute of Geosciences at the University of Bonn.