RIABININOHADROS
an ankylopollexian ornithopod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Ukraine.
Pronunciation: ree-AB-nin-oh-HAD-ross
Meaning: Riabinin's hadrosaur
Author/s: Lopatin and Averianov (
2020)
Synonyms: See
below
First Discovery: Crimea, Ukraine
Acta Ordinal: #1041
Riabininohadros weberae
(Riabnin's Hadrosaur, Honouring Gertruda Weber)Etymology
Riabininohadros is derived from "Riabnin" (for soviet palaeontologist Anatoly Nikolaevich Riabinin, who originally described its remains as a specimen of the dubious hadrosaurid
Orthomerus—
Orthomerus weberi) and "hadros" (a contraction of "hadrosaur").
The
species epithet, initially
weberi, was changed to the feminine
weberae in 1995 by Lev Nesov to match female discoverer Gertruda Weber whom the name honours.
Orthomerus weberi (Riabinin, 1945)
Orthomerus weberae (Nessov, 1995)
Discovery
The remains of
Riabininohadros were discovered in an unknown rock formation on the summit of Besh-Kosh Mountain, in the vicinity of Bakhchysarai, Crimea, Ukraine, by Gertruda Weber in 1934. The
holotype (Chernyshev Central Research Museum of Geology and Exploration [ZGTM] collection number 5751—housed in the Borissiak Paleontological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences [PIN] in Moscow) is a partial left leg.
Estimations
Timeline:
Era: Mesozoic
Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Maastrichtian
Age range: 72-66 mya
Stats:
Est. max. length: ?
Est. max. hip height: ?
Est. max. weight: ?
Diet: Herbivore
References
• Weber GF (1937) "From Yalta via the village of Kokkoz to Bakhchysarai". In Moiseev (ed.) Mezhdunarodnyi Geological Congress, XVII sessiya. Yuzhnaya ekskursiya, Krymskaya ASSR [International Geological Congress, 17th Session. Southern Excursion, Crimean ASSR].
Moscow–Leningrad: Glavnoye redaktsionnoe geologo-razvedochnoy literatury [Main Editorial Office of Geological-Exploration Literature], 1937: 48–58.
• Riabinin AN (1945) "Dinosaurian remains from the Upper Cretaceous of Crimea".
Vsesoyuznyi Nauchno-Issledovatel’skii Geologicheskii Institut. Materialy po Paleontologii i Stratigrafii
[All-Union Scientific Research Geological Institute. Materials on Paleontology and Stratigraphy], 4: 4-10. [In Russian.]
• Nessov LA (1995) "Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii".
Institute for Scientific Research on the Earth's Crust, St. Petersburg State University: 1-156. [In Russian.]
• Horner JR, Weishampel DB and Forster CA (2004) "Hadrosauridae". Page 438-463 in Weishampel, Dodson and Osmólska (eds.) "
The Dinosauria: Second Edition".
• Ulansky RE (2015) "
Riabininohadros, a new genus for hadrosaur from Maastrichtian of Crimea, Russia".
Dinologia: 10. [In Russian.]
• Lopatin AV and Averianov AO (2020) "
Riabininohadros, a New Genus for the Ornithischian Dinosaur Orthomerus weberae (Ornithopoda, Iguanodontia) from the Late Cretaceous of Crimea".
Paleontological Journal, 54(3): 320-322. "Questions of Nomenclature". DOI: 10.1134/S0031030120030089.
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