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

被引:4
作者
Geze, Raymond [1 ]
Veltz, Isabelle [2 ]
Paicheler, Jean-Claude [2 ]
Granier, Bruno [3 ,4 ]
Habchi, Roland [5 ]
Azar, Dany [1 ,6 ]
Maksoud, Sibelle [1 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Lebanese Univ, Earth & Life Sci Dept, Fac Sci 2, POB 26110217, Fanar Matn, Lebanon
[2] LTGF Roosevelt, Lab Sci Terre & Environm, Bat B-165,10 Rue Roosevelt, F-51100 Reims, France
[3] Univ Bretagne Occidentale, UFR Sci & Tech, Dept Sci Terre & Univers, 6 Ave Le Gorgeu,CS 93837, F-29238 Brest, France
[4] Univ Kansas, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 1200 Sunnyside Ave, Lawrence, KS 66045 USA
[5] Lebanese Univ, Res Platform Nanosci & Nanotechnol, Campus Pierre Gemayel, Fanar 90656, Lebanon
[6] Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
关键词
Dinosaurs; Lebanon; Lower Cretaceous; Jezzinian; Tracks; Footprints; Ichnites; EVOLUTION;
D O I
10.1007/s12517-016-2759-1
中图分类号
P [天文学、地球科学];
学科分类号
07 ;
摘要
A dinosaur tracksite was discovered in Batha on the side of the road from Harissa to Ghosta (Keserwan, Lebanon). About ten trackways are exposed at the top of two beds of Lower Cretaceous limestones over an area of approximately 1000 m(2). These footprints were probably made by at least two dinosaur species, Sauropoda and either Theropoda or Ornithopoda. The site, which is the first record from Lebanon, should be protected to allow further scientific investigations.
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