Dinosaur remains from the type Maastrichtian: an update

Citation
Db. Weishampel et al., Dinosaur remains from the type Maastrichtian: an update, GEOL MIJNB, 78(3-4), 1999, pp. 357-365
Citations number
28
Categorie Soggetti
Earth Sciences
Journal title
GEOLOGIE EN MIJNBOUW
ISSN journal
00167746 → ACNP
Volume
78
Issue
3-4
Year of publication
1999
Pages
357 - 365
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7746(1999)78:3-4<357:DRFTTM>2.0.ZU;2-V
Abstract
Isolated cranial and post-cranial remains of hadrosaurid dinosaurs have bee n collected from various outcrops in the type area of the Maastrichtian sta ge during the last few years. In the present contribution, dentary and maxi llary teeth are recorded from the area for the first time. Post-cranial ele ments comprise a newly collected, fragmentary, large right metatarsal III a nd a broken ?right humerus, recently recognised in the collections of Teyle rs Museum (Haarlem). Unfortunately, none of these remains can be identified to species level. The available material suggests, however, that more than one taxon of non-lambeosaurine hadrosaurid and a possible euhadrosaurian a re represented. Most of the new finds are stratigraphically well documented , which means that they may be linked to the recently published sequence-st ratigraphic interpretation of the type Maastrichtian. Dinosaur remains reco rded previously from the Maastrichtian type area are tabulated.