Dinosaur record from Iran

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

From: Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


I don't have all the details (such as page numbers) for this new paper
in Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia:

Kellner, A.W.A, Dalla Vecchia, F.M., Ataabadi, M.M., de Paula-Silva,
H. & Khosravi, E. (2012)
Review of the dinosaur record from Iran with the description of new material.
Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 118 (2):
http://www.rivistaitalianadipaleontologia.it/118-2_142.html


The dinosaur record from Iran includes footprints from the Liassic
Ab-e-Haji Formation of Neizar Valley (Kerman Province, central-eastern
Iran), a single footprint from the Javaherdeh Formation near Zerab
(Alborz Mounts, NE Iran), and skeletal remains from the Late
Jurassic-earliest Cretaceous Ravar Formation of the Ab Bid Syncline
(Kerman Province). Contrary to previous identifications, no footprints
from the Neizar Valley belong to ornithopods; they can all be referred
to theropod trackmakers. The Zerab footprint, on which the
ichnospecies Iranosauripus zerabensis is based, is an undiagnostic
theropod footprint and probably was lost. The skeletal remains are
represented by bone fragments and a tooth of a mid-sized theropod,
which represent the first dinosaur osteological record in this part of
the Middle East. The Ab Bid Syncline has a high potential for further
future discoveries.