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ArticleScientific reports2021

A fast-growing basal troodontid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the latest Cretaceous of Europe.

Albert G Sellés, Bernat Vila, Stephen L Brusatte, Philip J Currie, Àngel Galobart

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  1. Diet of bird-like troodontid dinosaurs: synthesis of a contentious clade.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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Albert G SellésInstitut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafon, Edifici Z, C/ de les columnes s/n, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain. albert.garcia@icp.cat.
Bernat VilaInstitut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafon, Edifici Z, C/ de les columnes s/n, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
Stephen L BrusatteSchool of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH9 3FE, UK.
Philip J CurrieUniversity of Alberta, CW-405 Biological Sciences Building, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2E9, Canada.
Àngel GalobartInstitut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafon, Edifici Z, C/ de les columnes s/n, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.

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Abstract

A characteristic fauna of dinosaurs and other vertebrates inhabited the end-Cretaceous European archipelago, some of which were dwarves or had other unusual features likely related to their insular habitats. Little is known, however, about the contemporary theropod dinosaurs, as they are represented mostly by teeth or other fragmentary fossils. A new isolated theropod metatarsal II, from the latest Maastrichtian of Spain (within 200,000 years of the mass extinction) may represent a jinfengopterygine troodontid, the first reported from Europe. Comparisons with other theropods and phylogenetic analyses reveal an autapomorphic foramen that distinguishes it from all other troodontids, supporting its identification as a new genus and species, Tamarro insperatus. Bone histology shows that it was an actively growing subadult when it died but may have had a growth pattern in which it grew rapidly in early ontogeny and attained a subadult size quickly. We hypothesize that it could have migrated from Asia to reach the Ibero-Armorican island no later than Cenomanian or during the Maastrichtian dispersal events.

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