Dinosaur remains from the type Maastrichtian: an update |
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Authors: | Weishampel David B. Mulder Eric W.A. Dortangs Rudi W. Jagt John W.M. Jianu Coralia-Maria Kuypers Marcel M.M. Peeters Hans H.G. Schulp Anne S. |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, 725 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21205-2196, USA, e-mail;(2) Museum Natura Docet, Oldenzaalsestraat 39, NL-7591 GL Denekamp, the Netherlands;(3) Hoofdstraat 36, NL-6436 CG Amstenrade, the Netherlands;(4) Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, P.O. Box 882, NL-6200 AW Maastricht, the Netherlands, e-mail;(5) Muzeul Civilizaiei Dacice i Romane, B-dul 1 Decembrie Nr. 39, RO-2700 Deva, Romania, e-mail;(6) Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), PO Box 59, NL-1790 AB Den Burg, the Netherlands |
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Abstract: | Isolated cranial and post-cranial remains of hadrosaurid dinosaurs have been collected from various outcrops in the type area of the Maastrichtian stage during the last few years. In the present contribution, dentary and maxillary teeth are recorded from the area for the first time. Post-cranial elements comprise a newly collected, fragmentary, large right metatarsal III and a broken ?right humerus, recently recognised in the collections of Teylers Museum (Haarlem). Unfortunately, none of these remains can be identified to species level. The available material suggests, however, that more than one taxon of non-lambeosaurine hadrosaurid and a possible euhadrosaurian are represented. Most of the new finds are stratigraphically well documented, which means that they may be linked to the recently published sequence-stratigraphic interpretation of the type Maastrichtian. Dinosaur remains recorded previously from the Maastrichtian type area are tabulated. |
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Keywords: | Belgium Dinosauria Hadrosauridae Maastrichtian Ornithischia the Netherlands |
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