New Data on Dinosaurs of the Crimean Peninsula

Dokl Biol Sci. 2018 Sep;482(1):206-209. doi: 10.1134/S0012496618050150. Epub 2018 Nov 6.

Abstract

Reexamination of the holotype of Riabininohadros weberae from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) of the Crimean Peninsula (Besh-Kosh) allowed determination of previously unknown elements of the femur, astragalus, and calcaneus. This taxon shows a set of primitive characters observed in iguanodontids and basal ornithischians and is referred to as Styracosterna indet. The second dinosaur specimen from Crimea (Aleshino) is a fragmentary skeleton, including cervical and dorsal vertebrae. It possibly belongs to advanced iguanodontids or primitive hadrosauroids. Thus, in the Maastrichtian of the Crimean Peninsula, at least two dinosaur species coexisted.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Bone and Bones / anatomy & histology
  • Dinosaurs / anatomy & histology*
  • Dinosaurs / classification
  • Europe, Eastern
  • Fossils / anatomy & histology*
  • Phylogeny*