Preliminary report on a dinosaur tracksite from Lower Cretaceous strata in Mount Lebanon |
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Authors: | Raymond Gèze Isabelle Veltz Jean-Claude Paicheler Bruno Granier Roland Habchi Dany Azar Sibelle Maksoud |
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Affiliation: | 1.Faculty of Sciences II, Earth and Life Sciences Department,Lebanese University,Fanar – Matn,Lebanon;2.Laboratoire des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Environnement,Reims,France;3.Département des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers, UFR Sciences et Techniques,Université de Bretagne Occidentale,Brest,France;4.Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,The University of Kansas,Lawrence,USA;5.Research Platform for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies,Lebanese University,Fanar,Lebanon;6.Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Nanjing,People’s Republic of China |
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Abstract: | A dinosaur tracksite was discovered in Batha on the side of the road from Harissa to Ghosta (Keserwan, Lebanon). About ten trackways are exposed at the top of two beds of Lower Cretaceous limestones over an area of approximately 1000 m2. These footprints were probably made by at least two dinosaur species, Sauropoda and either Theropoda or Ornithopoda. The site, which is the first record from Lebanon, should be protected to allow further scientific investigations. |
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