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Bozeman Daily Chronicle: Dinosaur bones identified as new species for Mont.

A Montana State University graduate student at the Museum of the Rockies has identified dinosaur bones collected in 1985 in central Montana as a Titanasaur.

Cary Woodruff tells KECI-TV that the tail bones belong to a special group of long-necked dinosaurs called sauropods.

Researchers discovered the bones nearly three decades ago in Wheatland County.

MSU Grad Student Discovers First Of Its Kind Dino In Montana
BOZEMAN, Mont. -- An MSU graduate student at the Museum of the Rockies has identified a dinosaur that's the first of its kind in Montana.

Cary Woodruff came across tail bones collected back in 1985 in Wheatland county last year and determined they were from a Titanasaur.

Woodruff says the dinosaur is from a special group called sauropods, or long neck dinosaurs and before now, they weren't believed to have been in the northern part of the country during the that time period.

Woodruff says he hopes this new discoveries will encourage people to look for more Titanasaur bones in Montana.

"Hopefully, people will go back and find, not only more of this animal but maybe more of other Titanasaurs and just keep an eye out for material this size so we can start to get a better picture of what this animal and similar animals from Montana were like," says Woodruff.