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Johan Lindgren

Johan Lindgren

Senior lecturer

Johan Lindgren

Theropod dinosaur teeth from the lowermost Cretaceous Rabekke Formation on Bornholm, Denmark

Author

  • Johan Lindgren
  • Philip J Currie
  • Jan Rees
  • Mikael Siverson
  • Sofie Lindström
  • Carl Alwmark

Summary, in English

The dinosaur fauna of the palynologically dated lower Berriasian Skyttegard Member of the Rabekke Formation on the Baltic island of Bornholm, Denmark, is represented by isolated tooth crowns. The assemblage is restricted to small maniraptoran theropods, assigned to the Dromaeosauridae incertae sedis and Maniraptora incertae sedis. The dromaeosaurid teeth are characterized by their labiolingually compressed and distally curved crowns that are each equipped with a lingually flexed mesial carina and a distinctly denticulated distal cutting edge. A morphologically aberrant tooth crown (referred to as Maniraptora incertae sedis) has triangular denticles of uneven width, a feature occasionally found in Upper Cretaceous hesperornithiform toothed diving birds, but also in premaxillary teeth of the velociraptorine Nuthetes from the Lower Cretaceous of England.

Department/s

  • Lithosphere and Biosphere Science

Publishing year

2008

Language

English

Pages

253-262

Publication/Series

Geobios

Volume

41

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Elsevier

Topic

  • Geology

Keywords

  • Dromaeosauridae
  • Denmark
  • Bornholm
  • Cretaceous
  • teeth
  • theropoda

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0016-6995