A Sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of the Amur Region

A Sauropod from the Late Cretaceous of the Amur Region

A narrow-crowned sauropod tooth from the Udurchukan Formation (Maastrichtian) in the Blagoveshchensk locality (Amur Region, Russia) is morphologically identical to the teeth of Nemegtosaurus from the Nemegt Formation (Maatsrichtian) in Mongolia and can be referred to the titanosaurs of the family Op...

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Veröffentlicht in:Doklady earth sciences 2022-12, Vol.507 (Suppl 3), p.S418-S419
Hauptverfasser: Averianov, A. O., Bolotsky, Yu. L., Bolotsky, I. Yu
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Sprache:eng
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Cretaceous
Earth and Environmental Science
Earth Sciences
Paleontology
Teeth
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Zusammenfassung:A narrow-crowned sauropod tooth from the Udurchukan Formation (Maastrichtian) in the Blagoveshchensk locality (Amur Region, Russia) is morphologically identical to the teeth of Nemegtosaurus from the Nemegt Formation (Maatsrichtian) in Mongolia and can be referred to the titanosaurs of the family Opisthocoelicaudiidae. This tooth is the only sauropod finding from the Late Cretaceous of Russia.
ISSN:1028-334X
1531-8354
DOI:10.1134/S1028334X22601547