Preliminary report on a dinosaur tracksite from Lower Cretaceous strata in Mount Lebanon

Gèze, Raymond; Veltz, Isabelle; Paicheler, Jean‐Claude; Granier, Bruno; Habchi, Roland; Azar, Dany; Maksoud, Sibelle

doi:10.1007/s12517-016-2759-1

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“…The hypothesis about haematophagy on homoiothermic vertebrates, including non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous, was presented, but so far with limited evidence. Teeth and tracks of a variety of dinosaurs have been recorded in Barremian deposits in Lebanon, indicating that they were part of the local palaeoenvironment (Buffetaut et al 2006;Gèze et al 2016). Younger Cenomanian (early Upper Cretaceous) deposits contain fossils of pterosaurs and early birds (Dalla Vecchia et al 2001;Dalla Vecchia & Chiappe 2003;Cay & Arduini 2008;Elgin & Frey 2011;Kellner et al 2019).…”

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A new genus and species of Leptoconopinae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Lower Cretaceous Baskinta amber outcrop in Lebanon

Pielowska-Ceranowska,

Azar,

Szwedo

2023

EJT

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A new fossil ceratopogonid genus and species from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber, Baskintoconops maaloufi Pielowska-Ceranowska gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated. The studied material originates from a newly discovered amber site in the Lebanese village Baskinta at a locality dubbed Qanat Bakish. The described genus is typified by its wing venation pattern combining characters of genera Fossileptoconops and Jordanoconops belonging to the subfamily Leptoconopinae.

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A new genus and species of Leptoconopinae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Lower Cretaceous Baskinta amber outcrop in Lebanon

Pielowska-Ceranowska,

Azar,

Szwedo

2023

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“…i Detail of a cracked bulge; note sub-parallel nature of cracks (length of pencil sharpener: 25 mm) ◂ a few Cretaceous dinosaur tracksites known from the Middle East at all (e.g. Avnimelech 1962;Schulp et al 2008;Gèze et al 2016;Klein et al 2020) that are all significantly older, and it thus appears that the discovery from the Farrokhi Formation of Central Iran is also the youngest record in the entire Middle East.…”

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Youngest Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite from the Middle East (Maastrichtian, Farrokhi Formation, Central Iran)

Wilmsen

Fürsich

Majidifard

2021

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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A late early Maastrichtian dinosaur trampling site is reported from the Farrokhi Formation of the Khur area, Central Iran. The largely indeterminate footprints, some of which may represent undertracks, can be classified as natural moulds (i.e. concave epireliefs) bordered by a raised rim of displaced sediment. They reach diameters of up to 0.5 m and were impressed under very shallow to subaerial conditions in an inter- to supratidal environment. Two generations of traces have been imprinted, initially into a soft, fine-grained carbonate sand and afterwards into a superficially hardened substrate that was still plastic underneath; the change in substrate consistency is supported by a conspicuous cracking pattern around the footprints. As a result, hardly any details of the foot morphology of the trackmakers are recorded. Nevertheless, the occurrence improves our knowledge about dinoturbation and its preservation in different kinds of substrates. Furthermore, it is the youngest record (ca. 70 Ma) of dinosaur locomotion traces from Iran and, in all probability, the entire Middle East.

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Edgellia libanica n. organo-gen., n. organo-sp., a new Dasycladalean organ from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon

Maksoud

Granier²,

Diying

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Arab J Geosci

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Preliminary report on a dinosaur tracksite from Lower Cretaceous strata in Mount Lebanon

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

A new genus and species of Leptoconopinae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Lower Cretaceous Baskinta amber outcrop in Lebanon

A new genus and species of Leptoconopinae (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) from Lower Cretaceous Baskinta amber outcrop in Lebanon

Youngest Cretaceous dinosaur tracksite from the Middle East (Maastrichtian, Farrokhi Formation, Central Iran)

Edgellia libanica n. organo-gen., n. organo-sp., a new Dasycladalean organ from the Lower Cretaceous of Lebanon

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