An ankylosaurian dinosaur from the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation of northeastern British Columbia, Canada
Fragmentary but associated dinosaur bones collected in 1930 from the Pine River of northeastern British Columbia are identified here as originating from an ankylosaur. The specimen represents only the second occurrence of dinosaur skeletal material from the Cenomanian Dunvegan Formation and the firs...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin. Fossil record 2020-09, Vol.23 (2), p.179-189 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Fragmentary but associated dinosaur bones collected in 1930 from
the Pine River of northeastern British Columbia are identified here as
originating from an ankylosaur. The specimen represents only the second
occurrence of dinosaur skeletal material from the Cenomanian Dunvegan
Formation and the first from Dunvegan outcrops in the province of British
Columbia. Nodosaurid ankylosaur footprints are common ichnofossils in the
formation, but the skeletal material described here is too fragmentary to
confidently assign to either a nodosaurid or ankylosaurid ankylosaur. The
Cenomanian is a time of major terrestrial faunal transitions in North
America, but many localities of this age are located in the southern United
States; the discovery of skeletal fossils from the Pine River demonstrates
the potential for the Dunvegan Formation to produce terrestrial vertebrate
fossils that may provide important new data on this significant transitional
period during the Cretaceous. |
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ISSN: | 2193-0074 2193-0066 2193-0074 |
DOI: | 10.5194/fr-23-179-2020 |