Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs

Víctor Fondevilla; Bernat Vila; Oriol Oms; Àngel Galobart

doi:10.1017/S0016756816000868

Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs

Víctor Fondevilla, Bernat Vila, Oriol Oms, Àngel Galobart

Department of Geology

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Copyright © 2016 Cambridge University Press. Southwestern Europe is one of the best regions for characterizing the dinosaur assemblages that prevailed just before the end-Cretaceous extinction. Aiming to better document this scenario, we provide the first evidence of dinosaur skin impressions in the red-beds of the Tremp Formation (southern Pyrenees). The impressions are assigned to sauropods (probably titanosaurians) on the basis of their scale morphology, arrangement and size. They represent a valuable tool for analysing the last occurrences of the sauropod clade before the K-Pg extinction, as they fall within chron C29r (latest Maastrichtian), thus representing some of the last in situ remains of this clade worldwide.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	393-398
Journal	Geological Magazine
Volume	154
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756816000868
Publication status	Published - 1 Mar 2017

Keywords

Europe
Integuments
Late Cretaceous
Pyrenees
Sauropods
Tremp Formation

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