The vertebrae date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian), about 75 million years ago.
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The vertebrae date to the Late Cretaceous (Campanian–Maastrichtian), about 75 million years ago.
The 2013 study described these vertebrae and two abelisaurid teeth from the same site as the first taxonomically identifiable dinosaur remains described from the Arabian Peninsula.
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A study published in 2013 describes seven caudal vertebrae, including fragmentary remains, of a sauropod dinosaur from the Adaffa Formation in northwestern Saudi Arabia and proposes a possible titanosaurian affinity; these remains do not form a complete skeleton.
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