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SUBMITTER: Sereno PC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1691741 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Sereno Paul C PC Wilson Jeffrey A JA Conrad Jack L JL
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20040701 1546
Abelisauroid predators have been recorded almost exclusively from South America, India and Madagascar, a distribution thought to document persistent land connections exclusive of Africa. Here, we report fossils from three stratigraphic levels in the Cretaceous of Niger that provide definitive evidence that abelisauroid dinosaurs and their immediate antecedents were also present on Africa. The fossils include an immediate abelisauroid antecedent of Early Cretaceous age (ca. 130-110 Myr ago), earl ...[more]