A new genus and species of sauropodomorph dinosaur has been discovered, after being misidentified as Plateosaurus trossingensis and kept in the Palaeontological Collection of the University of Tübingen in Germany for a century A reconstruction of Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum The cortical bone on the left side of the fossil is fractured into flakes which can be explained if the carcass was exposed over a long time on the mud before being buried — in the reconstruction the animal will fall to its right body side The reconstruction shows the animal sinking in a mud trap which has also been found in the Trossingen Formation in Baden-Württemberg a herd of Plateosaurus trossingensis runs away from the scene The flora in the swamp is reconstructed based on fossils from the Germanic basin with shoots of horsetails and ferns covering the swamp and a forest comprising cycads The newly-identified dinosaur species lived in what is now known as Swabian Alb during the Triassic period The ancient animal, scientifically named Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum, belongs to the sauropodomorph clade Massopoda Its partial skeleton was found in the Trossingen Formation near the city of Tübingen in Germany in 1922 “When we re-analyzed a skeleton that was discovered in Trossingen in 1922 we established that many of the bones were not the same as a typical Plateosaurus,” said University of Tübingen paleontologists Omar Rafael Regalado Fernandez and Ingmar Werneburg broader and more strongly-built hips with fused sacral vertebrae as well as unusually large and robust long bones — both features implied locomotion on four legs.” “This is unlike the Plateosauridae which although resembling the long-necked sauropods from the Jura region likely moved on only two legs.” The researchers found that Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum was likely a quadruped and much more closely related to the later large sauropods such as Brachiosaurus or Diplodocus than to the Plateosauridae Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum is positioned as the earliest massopodan discovered in the Trossingen beds,” they said “The fact that it has been illustrated since the early 20th century as part of Plateosaurus may suggest that some noise has been introduced into the phylogenetic analyses of the past decade by assuming all the medium to large-sized sauropodomorphs from Germany belonged to the same species.” “It is also clear that there is no consensus on plateosaurian features and massopodan features since two incompatible overall topologies have been produced.” “Through comparative anatomy and the evidence from our phylogenetic analysis Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum displays several derived features consistent with the position among massopodans and hints to an early diversification of Sauropodomorpha as they occupied the vacant niches in Pangaea left by rhynchosaurs and aetosaurs.” “A rapid disparification event could explain the contradictory phylogenetic signals discussed in the literature.” “Many cranial characters that support one group could be a product of convergence as the animals adopted similar feeding strategies in different parts of Pangaea.” The team’s paper was published in the journal Vertebrate Zoology A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as ‘Plateosaurus’ for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection Vertebrate Zoology 72: 771-822; doi: 10.3897/vz.72.e86348 Credit: Omar Rafael Regalado Fernandez and Ingmar Werneburg Press release originally published by Tübingen University Paleontologists at the University of Tübingen’s Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment have discovered a hitherto unknown genus and species of dinosaur.  Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum lived about 203 to 211 million years ago in the region now known as Swabian Alb and was a herbivore. The new species displays similarities with the large long-necked dinosaurs known as sauropods, and was identified when already-known dinosaur bones were re-examined. The results have been published in the open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal Vertebrate Zoology.  which are part of Tübingen’s paleontological collection were previously interpreted as belonging to the family Plateosauridae Omar Rafael Regalado Fernandez and PD Dr Ingmar Werneburg have re-examined all dinosaur bones stored in Tübingen Most of the fossils originate from a quarry near Trossingen at the edge of Swabian Alb where many dinosaur bones found since the 19th century have frequently been classified as Plateosaurus.  While it is undisputed that this group of dinosaurs was very common in parts of Europe about 200 million years ago contemporary paleontologists are well aware that taxonomical classification in the past was often inaccurate with some discoveries being too rapidly attributed to the Plateosaurus genus.  When they re-analyzed a skeleton that was discovered in Trossingen in 1922 Regalado Fernandez and Werneburg established that many of the bones were not the same as a typical Plateosaurus.  demonstrates broader and more strongly-built hips with fused sacral vertebrae as well as unusually large and robust long bones Both features imply locomotion on four legs which - although resembling the long-necked sauropods from the Jura region - likely moved on only two legs Following in-depth comparison of all anatomical characteristics the scientists re-categorized the partial skeleton from Trossingen in the dinosaur tree of life and established that they had discovered a previously unknown species and genus.  It is highly probable that the newly described Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum was a quadruped far more closely related to more recently lived large sauropods such as Brachiosaurus or Diplodocus.  The surrounding sedimentary rock and the preservation of the bones indicate that this Tuebingosaurus had sunk into a swamp and died The bones on the left side of the body were probably on the surface and exposed to the elements for several years is a homage to our beautiful university city and its inhabitants,” says Werneburg.  The species name (maierfritzorum) is a tribute to two German zoologists: Professor Wolfgang Maier from Tübingen and Professor Uwe Fritz from Senckenberg Natural History Collections Dresden The new species was described in the latest edition of the Senckenberg Natural Science Society’s journal Vertebrate Zoology, which comprises a special volume paying tribute to Wolfgang Maier on the occasion of his 80th birthday the scientists demonstrate that the early European dinosaurs were far more diverse than previously thought.  After completing the study of the skeleton of the newly discovered species Tuebingosaurus maierfritzorum the bones were put back together and can already be seen in two large display cabinets in the Tübingen’s paleontological collection amongst the thousands archaeological finds the visitors can also find two complete Plateosaurus skeletons from Trossingen partial skeletons of two sauropods and one stegosaur from Tanzania Regalado Fernández OR, Werneburg I (2022) A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as 'Plateosaurus' for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection. Vertebrate Zoology 72: 771–822. https://doi.org/10.3897/vz.72.e86348  10.3897/vz.72.e86348 A new massopodan sauropodomorph from Trossingen Formation (Germany) hidden as 'Plateosaurus' for 100 years in the historical Tübingen collection are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert by contributing institutions or for the use of any information through the EurekAlert system Copyright © 2025 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page More than 70 bed burials were studied as part of this research including beds found in Trossingen and Cologne Cathedral.  The Trumpington Bed Burial contained grave goods including this ornate gold cross embedded with garnets The burial rite is tied to the expansion of Christianity On rare occasions in medieval mainland Europe the cream of the crop — those who were wealthy or noble — were sometimes buried as if they were going to sleep interred on their beds in what is known as a bed burial it was unclear how this practice spread to England new research reveals that bed burials gained traction in the seventh century A.D along with the spread of Christianity and soon became a common burial rite for women "Bed burials were something that was specifically imported by women who were moving around at that very specific point in time [across Europe]," said Emma Brownlee the study's sole author and a research fellow in archaeology at Girton College and a fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research both of which are within the University of Cambridge in England who were bringing these burial rites with them as they migrated [as missionaries] causing it to take on these associations of femininity and Christianity in England." For context, Brownlee points to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in A.D which led to Christianity to at first diminish and then thrive again in Europe Christianity [had vanished] as a religion," Brownlee told Live Science there's this push by the church on the continent to start reaching out and converting places that aren't Christian Pope Gregory I pushes this idea of conversion and missionaries One of the slightly less obvious ways that the church tried to convert people was by encouraging marriages between Christian women and non-Christian men." you have this specific policy of Christian families trying to marry their daughters into the English elite The idea was that the wives acted as this converting influence on the families and so women had this really key role to play through those marriages." Get the world’s most fascinating discoveries delivered straight to your inbox While not much is known about the woman's identity the cross suggests that she was most likely Christian the earliest known bed burial occurred in Eastern Europe in the fifth century A.D. and the practice spread across mainland Europe during the sixth and seventh centuries as a rite for men including the burial of a 6-year-old boy beneath Cologne Cathedral in Germany It wasn't until later that the burials became more common for women in seventh-century England "Bed burial therefore acquired feminine and Christian characteristics in England that it did not have elsewhere." —Burial of infant 'Neve' could be oldest of its kind in Europe —Oldest deliberate burial of a human in Africa discovered —In a burial ground full of Stone Age men, one grave holds a 'warrior' woman Then why exactly were beds used as burial vessels as opposed to coffins Brownlee thinks it could be related to a person's status as well as a poetic metaphor regarding death "Not many people would've had their own bed frames back then," she told Live Science "The ability to construct this wooden bed frame took quite a lot of labor so it's not something that everyone could afford Most people would've just slept on straw mattresses but if you were important enough to have your own bed frame The idea of equating death with eternal sleep may have also played a role "There might also be connotations of sleep going along with it," Brownlee said "So it's telling us a little bit about how people were relating to death and they saw it as if they're going to sleep rather than it being some final end." The remains of the Trumpington Bed Burial are currently on display at the Museum of Archeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in England Jennifer Nalewicki is former Live Science staff writer and Salt Lake City-based journalist whose work has been featured in The New York Times She covers several science topics from planet Earth to paleontology and archaeology to health and culture Jennifer has a bachelor's degree in Journalism from The University of Texas at Austin Mysterious Tikal altar that wasn't Maya after all includes at least 4 skeletons — and 1 was a child Ancient jawbone dredged off Taiwan seafloor belongs to mysterious Denisovan Digital 'resurrection' of the Titanic sheds light on fateful night the ship tore apart Medievalists.net Musicians used a distinct type of lyre in early medieval Northern Europe with one of the stringed instruments even being included in the famous seventh-century Sutton Hoo ship burial research has identified another one of these lyres – over 4,000 kilometres away in Kazakhstan This discovery is the result of a re-analysis of Soviet-era excavations that ran from the late 1930s to the mid-1990s these excavations found a series of wooden objects from a medieval settlement in the Dzhetyasar territory Although Soviet researchers were unable to identify these objects recent work recognised them as musical instruments research published in the journal Antiquity narrows this down further showing at least one appears to match the type of lyre seen at Sutton Hoo “The artefact was identified as a musical instrument and dated to the fourth century AD by the Kazakh archaeologist Dr Azilkhan Tazhekeev,” said Dr Gjermund Kolltveit an independent scholar from Norway and author of the new research “I was stunned by the instrument’s resemblance to lyres from Western Europe This type of lyre is long and shallow with a single-piece soundbox that has parallel sides and a curved bottom These differ from the lyres seen in the classical Meditteranean; in fact when the lyre from Sutton Hoo was found in the 1930s it was initially identified not as a lyre Since then more lyres like it have been found such as an almost intact example from Trossingen confirming there was a unique style of lyre in the region Other finds suggest this type of lyre may predate the Romans although most examples are from the early medieval period like the instrument from Sutton Hoo lyres of this type—famously known from the Sutton Hoo ship burial and the warrior grave in Trossingen Southern Germany—are not known outside Western Europe at all,” said Dr Kolltveit the identification of strikingly similar instrument 4,000 km away is groundbreaking news.” The lyre from Dzhetyasar has a matching soundbox it also fits within the time frame of the northern European lyre “[If] it had been discovered in an Anglo-Saxon cemetery the Dzhetyasar lyre would not have seemed out of place,” Dr Kolltveit wrote in the paper Despite being found thousands of kilometres away from its kin this find could help tackle the many questions that remain about this type of lyre: is it a unique Northern European development or is it part of a wider musical tradition Dzhetyasar is an important site on the Silk Road raising the possibility that the lyre travelled along this route and could have reached Byzantium Perhaps the origins of this instrument also lie somewhere upon the Silk Road “I hope that we can cooperate with Kazakh archaeologists and bring together a team for a thorough study of this single instrument which we still don’t fully understand from a technological point of view,” said Dr Kolltveit also noting further investigations into Sovietera digs could help flesh out the history of this instrument The Sutton Hoo lyre may have a much deeper hinting at a more interconnected musical world in the medieval period The article, “The Sutton Hoo lyre and the music of the Silk Road: a new find of the fourth century AD reveals the Germanic lyre’s missing eastern connections,” by Gjermund Kolltveit, appears in Antiquity. 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highest prize for the oboe in the competition and the first Korean musician in seven years to receive a prize in the wind instrument category after flutist Kim Soo-yun who came in third in 2010 Strauss' Oboe Concerto in D Major in the final round which won him the prize Ham was among three finalists from the initial 39 of the first round Germany's Juliana Koch and New Zealand's Thomas Hutchinson also tied for second place Ham will perform with the other two prizewinners from Sept Munich Chamber Orchestra and Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Ham entered Seoul Arts High School but left for Germany during his first year and studied at the Trossingen Musikhochschule and the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin He completed his studies at the Berlin Philharmonic’s Herbert von Karajan Academy (2013-2015) with Jonathan Kelly such as the Heinz Holliger Special Prize in 2013 by Holliger himself and first prize in the Muri Competition for oboe and bassoon in 2013 He was 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