New Data on Dinosaurs of the Crimean Peninsula
- Authors: Lopatin A.V.1,2, Averianov A.O.3,4,5, Alifanov V.R.1
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Affiliations:
- Borissiak Paleontological Institute
- Moscow State University
- Zoological Institute
- Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University
- St. Petersburg State University
- Issue: Vol 482, No 1 (2018)
- Pages: 206-209
- Section: General Biology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/0012-4966/article/view/154385
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496618050150
- ID: 154385
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Abstract
Reexamination of the holotype of Riabininohadros weberae from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) of the Crimean Peninsula (Besh-Kosh) allowed determination of previously unknown elements of the femur, astragalus, and calcaneus. This taxon shows a set of primitive characters observed in iguanodontids and basal ornithischians and is referred to as Styracosterna indet. The second dinosaur specimen from Crimea (Aleshino) is a fragmentary skeleton, including cervical and dorsal vertebrae. It possibly belongs to advanced iguanodontids or primitive hadrosauroids. Thus, in the Maastrichtian of the Crimean Peninsula, at least two dinosaur species coexisted.
About the authors
A. V. Lopatin
Borissiak Paleontological Institute; Moscow State University
Email: dzharakuduk@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119647; Moscow, 119992
A. O. Averianov
Zoological Institute; Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University; St. Petersburg State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: dzharakuduk@mail.ru
Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, 199034; Kazan, 420008 Tatarstan; St. Petersburg, 199034
V. R. Alifanov
Borissiak Paleontological Institute
Email: dzharakuduk@mail.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 119647
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