Dinosaurs in Arabia
There are very few confirmed cases of dinosaurs in Arabia, but some evidence has been found that suggests that dinosaurs lived in some parts of Arabia like Yemen, Oman, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.[1][2] Most of the Arabian Peninsula was under water, as evidenced by sea creatures like rudists and berriasella, or was connected to Africa, as evidenced by the fact that the Arabian peninsula split off from Africa and collided into Asia.[citation needed] However, some parts of Arabia may have been island formations based on evidence of footprints and some fossils found in Oman, Saudi Arabia and Yemen.[citation needed][clarification needed]
Dinosaurs in Yemen
In Yemen, footprints of an ornithopod were discovered in 2008. The tracks were found in Madar. This is one of the very few dinosaurs that have been confirmed in Arabia. Eleven sauropod footprints were found in Madar, which were dated to 150 million years ago, along a coastal mudflat.[3]
Dinosaurs in Saudi Arabia
A titanosaur and a theropod tooth were found in the Adaffa Formation. The theropod was likely a distant relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex, as both fossils have been dated to around 72 million years ago.[4]
Dinosaurs in Oman
A caudal vertebra of a late Cretaceous theropod was discovered in Al-Khod, the same region where a hadrosaurid dinosaur from the same period was found.[2] Hadrosaurids and theropods existed together until the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event around 66 million years ago, which marked the end of non-avian dinosaurs in the Arabian peninsula.[5]
Avian dinosaurs
Avian dinosaurs were more common than their non-avian counterparts. Some birds were even bigger than a man, like the Bennu heron and the Arabian ostrich, and to this day there is a large variety of birds inhabiting the peninsula, although most large bird species went extinct due to habitat loss and overhunting by human beings. They are also not as dominant as large mammals.[citation needed]
References
- ↑ Charles Q. Choi (2008-05-20). "First Dinosaur Footprints Found on Arabian Peninsula". livescience.com. Retrieved 2022-11-25.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Schulp, Anne S.; Hanna, Samir S.; Hartman, Axel F.; Jagt, John W. M. (2000-12-01). "A Late Cretaceous theropod caudal vertebra from the Sultanate of Oman". Cretaceous Research. 21 (6): 851–856. doi:10.1006/cres.2000.0235. ISSN 0195-6671.
- ↑ Charles Q. Choi (2008-05-20). "First Dinosaur Footprints Found on Arabian Peninsula". livescience.com. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ↑ Costandi, Moheb (2014). "Dinosaur bones found in Saudi Arabia". Nature Middle East. doi:10.1038/nmiddleeast.2014.14. Retrieved 2022-12-07.
- ↑ Buffetaut, Eric; Hartman, Axel-Frans; Al-Kindi, Mohammed; Schulp, Anne S. (2015-11-12). "Hadrosauroid Dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous of the Sultanate of Oman". PLOS ONE. 10 (11): e0142692. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1042692B. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0142692. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 4643044. PMID 26562674.
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