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.
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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
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Vol. 54 • No. 3
September 2009
Vol. 54 • No. 3
September 2009
Dromaeosauridae
Germany
Late Jurassic
Saurischia
Theropoda
velociraptorine dromaeosaurid teeth