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Theropod teeth diversity from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) at Riodeva (Teruel, Spain)

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Riodeva sites (Villar del Arzobispo Fm) in Teruel, Spain, have revealed themselves as a window through which to gain a better understanding of the Iberian dinosaurs of the Jurassic–Cretaceous transition. Nevertheless, the theropod record from this Formation is scarce. Based on our study of a sample of theropod teeth recovered from different Riodevan sites, we have come to the conclusion that dinosaur assemblages in Riodeva include at least three different kinds of theropods: big non-coelurosaur tetanurans, middle-sized allosaurids and small dromaeosaurs. These three types of theropods represent new elements in the record of dinosaurs, which until now includes sauropods (turiasaurians, diplodocids, macronarians), stegosaurs and ornithopods.

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This study was supported by the Departamento de Educación, Cultura y Deporte from Gobierno de Aragón and project “DINOSARAGÓN” (El Patrimonio Paleontológico como recurso para el desarrollo: los yacimientos de dinosaurios de Aragón, CGL2009-07792) with the additional financial support of the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación and FEDER funding. Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural from Gobierno de Aragón funded the excavations in Riodeva where the specimens were collected. The first author is a FPU grant holder from the Ministerio de Educación (Ref. AP2008-00846) and the funding for his visit to the Tendaguru collections at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin was in behalf of a travel scholarship related to this grant. The authors also acknowledge Daniela Schwarz-Wings for her help in accessing this collection. Roger Benson and Oliver Rauhut helped with information and bibliography on megalosaurids and the theropods from Tendaguru. Giorgios Iliopoulos, Attila Osi, the referees Stephen Brusatte and Eberhard Frey and the editors Peter Königshof and Sinje Weber improved this manuscript with their comments and suggestions.

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    Francisco Gascó, Alberto Cobos, Rafael Royo-Torres, Luis Mampel & Luis Alcalá

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Gascó, F., Cobos, A., Royo-Torres, R. et al. Theropod teeth diversity from the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian–Berriasian) at Riodeva (Teruel, Spain). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 92, 273–285 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-012-0079-3

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