Journal
GEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE
Volume 154, Issue 2, Pages 393-398Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0016756816000868
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sauropods; integuments; Late Cretaceous; Tremp Formation; Pyrenees; Europe
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- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CGL 2011-30069-C02-01, 02/BTE]
- Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya [20014/100927]
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [BES-2012-052366]
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Southwestern Europe is one of the best regions for characterizing the dinosaur assemblages that prevailed just before the end-Cretaceous extinction. Aiming to better document this scenario, we provide the first evidence of dinosaur skin impressions in the red-beds of the Tremp Formation (southern Pyrenees). The impressions are assigned to sauropods (probably titanosaurians) on the basis of their scale morphology, arrangement and size. They represent a valuable tool for analysing the last occurrences of the sauropod clade before the K-Pg extinction, as they fall within chron C29r (latest Maastrichtian), thus representing some of the last in situ remains of this clade worldwide.
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