Theropod Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the South Pyrenees Basin of Spain

Angelica Torices; Philip J. Currie; Jose Ignacio Canudo; Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola

doi:10.4202/app.2012.0121

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30 October 2013 Theropod Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the South Pyrenees Basin of Spain

Angelica Torices, Philip J. Currie, Jose Ignacio Canudo, Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola

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Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 60(3):611-626 (2013). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0121

Abstract

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.

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Angelica Torices, Philip J. Currie, Jose Ignacio Canudo, and Xabier Pereda-Suberbiola "Theropod Dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of the South Pyrenees Basin of Spain," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 60(3), 611-626, (30 October 2013). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2012.0121

Received: 12 October 2012; Accepted: 1 October 2013; Published: 30 October 2013

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