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New Data on Dinosaurs of the Crimean Peninsula

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Reexamination of the holotype of Riabininohadros weberae from the Upper Cretaceous (upper Maastrichtian) of the Crimean Peninsula (Besh-Kosh) allowed determination of previously unknown elements of the femur, astragalus, and calcaneus. This taxon shows a set of primitive characters observed in iguanodontids and basal ornithischians and is referred to as Styracosterna indet. The second dinosaur specimen from Crimea (Aleshino) is a fragmentary skeleton, including cervical and dorsal vertebrae. It possibly belongs to advanced iguanodontids or primitive hadrosauroids. Thus, in the Maastrichtian of the Crimean Peninsula, at least two dinosaur species coexisted.

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  1. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 119647, Russia

    A. V. Lopatin & V. R. Alifanov

  2. Moscow State University, Moscow, 119992, Russia

    A. V. Lopatin

  3. Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    A. O. Averianov

  4. Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, Kazan, 420008 Tatarstan, Russia

    A. O. Averianov

  5. St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia

    A. O. Averianov

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Original Russian Text © A.V. Lopatin, A.O. Averianov, V.R. Alifanov, 2018, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2018, Vol. 482, No. 6.

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Lopatin, A.V., Averianov, A.O. & Alifanov, V.R. New Data on Dinosaurs of the Crimean Peninsula. Dokl Biol Sci 482, 206–209 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0012496618050150

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