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Malkani, M.S. (2017) Theropod Dinosaurs and Mesoeucrocodiles from Pakistan: A Review. In: Daekyo Cheong, Young Il Lee and Daewoo Kim (eds), Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Geological Society of Korea, Proceedings and Fieldguide book for the Fifth International Symposium of International Geoscience Programme IGCP Project 608 “Cretaceous Ecosystems and Their Responses to Paleoenvironmental Changes in Asia and the Western Pacific”, October 22-28, 2017, Jeju Island, Korea, 63-66.

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• TITLE: Theropods, Mesoeucrocodiles and Pterosaurs Found from the Latest Maastrichtian Vitakri Formation of Balochistan, Pakistan; Description with Large Photographs and Comparison with Coeval Taxa from Indo-Pakistan Subcontinent

  AUTHORS: Muhammad Sadiq Malkani

  KEYWORDS: Theropods, Mesoeucrocodiles, Pterosaurs, Latest Maastrichtian, Pakistan

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Journal of Geology, Vol.10 No.5, May 12, 2020

  ABSTRACT: Theropods, mesoeucrocodiles and pterosaurs (along with titanosaurian sauropods) are found in two overbank flood deposited mottled muds/shale units (alternated by meandering river deposited sandstone unit) of the latest Maastrichtian (67 - 66 Ma) Vitakri Formation, Barkhan District, Balochistan, Pakistan. These vertebrates coexisted under the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary line of control and became extinct as mass extinction. Previously these taxa lack the detail description but here theropods, mesoeucrocodiles and pterosaur from Pakistan are being described well with large photographs which provide better understanding of fauna from Pakistan and comparison with coeval taxa from Indo-Pakistan subcontinent. These fauna with associated cranial and postcranial skeletons are significant for Gondwanan paleobiogeography and phylogenetic studies.