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[dinosaur] Fwd: [Dinosaur] Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs



All my posts to the DML got bounced yesterday, so I'll try sending them again...


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From: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 13, 2016 at 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: [dinosaur] [Dinosaur] Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs
To: dinosaur-l@usc.edu



Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


Some news items on the find:

Unique skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs discovered in Barcelona

http://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail/x-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345713309231

http://phys.org/news/2016-10-unique-skin-european-dinosaurs-barcelona.html

http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20161013/41973646534/descubren-en-cataluna-la-impresion-fosil-de-las-escamas-de-un-dinosaurio.html


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On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Bernat Vila <bernat_vila@hotmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

A recently published paper on dinosaur skin impressions from the latest Cretaceous of Europe:


Fondevilla, V., Vila, B., Oms, O., Galobart, À. 2016. Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs. Geological Magazine.


Abstract
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.



Skin impressions of the last European dinosaurs - VÍCTOR FONDEVILLA, BERNAT VILA, ORIOL OMS, ÀNGEL GALOBART