[dinosaur] Spinosaurus lived with repeated wildfires in Cretaceous Egypt (free pdfs)

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A new paper in open access:


Haytham El Atfy, Tarek Anan, André Jasper & Dieter Uhl (2019)
Repeated occurrence of palaeo-wildfires during deposition of the Bahariya
Formation (early Cenomanian) of Egypt.
Journal of Palaeogeography 8, Article number: 28
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The Upper Cretaceous (early Cenomanian) Bahariya Formation of Egypt has an
outstanding reputation for its wealth of vertebrate remains, including a
variety of iconic dinosaurs, like the carnivorous Spinosaurus and
Carcharodontosaurus, as well as the herbivorous Aegyptosaurus and
Paralititan. Besides these dinosaur fossils, the Bahariya Formation yielded
also a wealth of invertebrate and plant remains, but even today many
aspects concerning the continental palaeoenvironments reflected in these
deposits (including the occurrence of palaeo-wildfires) have not been
studied in detail. So far six distinct macro-charcoal bearing levels could
be identified within the type section of the Bahariya Formation at Gabal El
Dist profile, one of the most prolific outcrops of this formation in terms
of fossil occurrence located in the north of the Bahariya Oasis, Western
Desert, Egypt. Most of the charcoal investigated by means of SEM originates
from ferns, pointing to a considerable proportion of this plant group
within the palaeo-ecosystems that experienced fires. Gymnosperms and
(putative) angiosperms have less frequently been identified. The collected
data present evidence that the landscapes at the northern shores of
Gondwana repeatedly experienced palaeo-wildfires, adding extra proof to
previous statements that the Late Cretaceous was a fiery world on a global
scale.

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Dinos lived in fiery times

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