Author/Authors :
Schulp, Ann S. Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht, Netherlands , O Connor, Patrick M. Ohio University - Department of Biomedical Sciences, USA , Weishampel, David B. Johns Hopkins University - School of Medicine, Center for Functional Anatomy Evolution, USA , Al Sayigh, Abdul Razak Sultan Qaboos University - College of Science - Department of SciencesDepartment of Sciences, Oman , Al-Harthy, Abdulrahman Sultan Qaboos University - College of Science - Department of Sciences, Oman , Jagt, John W.M. Brunei Shell Petroleum, Netherlands , Hartman, Axel F. Brunei Shell Petroleum, Netherlands
Abstract :
Fieldwork in the Upper Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Al-Khod Conglomerates in the Sultanate of Oman led to the discovery of a large bone fragment tentatively identified as a partial distal left humerus of a sauropod and an ornithopod dorsal vertebra. The very fragmentary state of preservation of the dorsal vertebra makes specific attribution difficult, but it shows remarkable similarities to the rhabdodontid dinosaurs Rhabdodon and Zalmoxes.
Keywords :
Sultanate of Oman , Late Cretaceous , Maastrichtian , Dinosauria , Ornithopoda , Sauropoda.
