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1 September 2009 Velociraptorine Dromaeosaurid Teeth from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Germany
Torsten Van Der Lubbe, Ute Richter, Nils Knötschke
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Abstract

Six theropod teeth from a Late Jurassic (Kimmeridgian) bone bed in Langenberg Quarry of Oker (Goslar, Germany) are identified as a new dromaeosaurid taxon, here left in open nomenclature. Direct comparison reveals that the teeth are very similar to velociraptorine dromaeosaurid teeth from the Guimarota coal mine (Late Jurassic, Portugal) and to velociraptorine dromaeosaurid teeth from Uña (Barremian, Cuenca Province, Spain). Our data indicate that the teeth from the Kimmeridgian of Lower Saxony are of velociraptorine dromaeosaurid type, and therefore represent one of the oldest occurrences of the group Dromaeosauridae.

Torsten Van Der Lubbe, Ute Richter, and Nils Knötschke "Velociraptorine Dromaeosaurid Teeth from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Germany," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 54(3), 401-408, (1 September 2009). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2008.0007
Received: 28 January 2008; Accepted: 1 December 2008; Published: 1 September 2009
KEYWORDS
Dromaeosauridae
Germany
Late Jurassic
Saurischia
Theropoda
velociraptorine dromaeosaurid teeth
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