“Megalosaurus cf. superbus” from southeastern Romania: The oldest known Cretaceous carcharodontosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) and its implications for earliest Cretaceous Europe-Gondwana connections
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- 作者：Zoltá ; n Csiki-Savaa ; zoltan.csiki@g.unibuc.ro" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author ; Stephen L. Brusatteb ; Ştefan Vasilea
- 关键词：Southern Dobrogea ; Valanginian ; Carcharodontosauridae ; Cratonic Europe ; Palaeobiogeography
- 刊名：Cretaceous Research
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：May 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：60
- 期：Complete
- 页码：221-238
- 全文大小：3391 K
文摘
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An isolated, large theropod dinosaur tooth from Romania is referred to Carcharodontosauridae.
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The Romanian carcharodontosaurid is Valanginian in age, the oldest Cretaceous record of the clade.
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This occurrence supports dispersal from Europe to west-Gondwana during the mid-Early Cretaceous.