Spinosaurid Dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of North Africa and Europe: Fossil Record, Biogeography and Extinction

Autores

  • Carlos Roberto A. Candeiro Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Aparecida de Goiânia, Laboratório de Paleontologia e Evolução, Rua Mucuri, s/n, Área 03 – St., Conde dos Arcos, 74968-755, Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás State, Brazil.
  • Stephen L. Brusatte University of Edinburgh, Grant Institute, School of GeoSciences, James Hutton Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FE, United Kingdom.
  • André Luis de Souza Universidade Federal de Goiás, Campus Aparecida de Goiânia, Laboratório de Paleontologia e Evolução, Rua Mucuri, s/n, Área 03 – St., Conde dos Arcos, 74968-755, Aparecida de Goiânia, Goiás State, Brazil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11137/2017_3_294_302

Palavras-chave:

Theropod spinosaurids, Middle Cretaceous, Biogeography

Resumo

We review the fossil records of spinosaurid dinosaurs in order to discuss this group’s evolution and distribution in Europe and North Africa during the Early Cretaceous. Along with their eastern Laurasian distribution during the Cretaceous, these theropods have been found in coastal deposits of Europe and North Africa dated from the Barremian to the Cenomanian. The main occurrences of spinosaurid remains are in the deposits of northern Gondwana and western Laurasia, which suggests that these regions were very important in spinosaurid evolution prior to the Cenomanian. Later, spinosaurids were seemingly replaced in northern Gondwana by other top predator groups, including the abelisauroids.

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2019-07-30

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v. 40 n. 3 (2017)

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