Theropod dinosaurs from the upper cretaceous of the south pyrenees basin of Spain

The dinosaur record in the South Pyrenees Basin is diverse and rich. A total of 142 theropod teeth were studied for this paper, which constitutes one of the richest samples for these remains in Europe. Eight upper Campanian to upper Maastrichtian outcrops from the Pyrenees produced six non-avian the...

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Autores: Torices Hernández, Angélica, Currie, Philip, Canudo, José Ignacio, Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/100576
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/100576
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:568.19(460)
Dinosauria
Theropoda
teeth
Cretaceous
Spain
South Pyrenees
Paleontología
2416.05 Paleontología de Los Vertebrados
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Sumario:The dinosaur record in the South Pyrenees Basin is diverse and rich. A total of 142 theropod teeth were studied for this paper, which constitutes one of the richest samples for these remains in Europe. Eight upper Campanian to upper Maastrichtian outcrops from the Pyrenees produced six non-avian theropod taxa (Theropoda indet., Coelurosauria indet., Richardoestesia, Dromaeosauridae indet., Pyroraptor olympius, Paronychodon). These six taxa are added to two previously described theropods (a Richardoestesia-like form and a possible ornithomimosaurid), indicating that there was considerable theropod diversity on the Iberian Peninsula during the Late Cretaceous.