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Paleontology, also spelled palaeontology[a] or palæontology, is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present). It includes the study of fossils to classify organisms and study their interactions with each other and their environments (their /c/paleoecology. Read more...

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“Centrosaurus was only definitely known from sites of similar age in Alberta," said Demers-Potvin. "Now we report fossils that unequivocally belong to this species from Saskatchewan for the first time. It was always very likely to be found nearby, but the presence of Citipes elegans, a small, parrot-beaked dinosaur, was more unexpected."

The discovery of Citipes elegans, previously only known from Alberta, is the first of its kind in Saskatchewan and points to a broader diversity of small dinosaur species in the region.

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