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Book Fauna Palaestina 4 Year 2014 By Prof Dr Norman Ali Bassam Khalaf von Jaffa ISBN 978-9950-383-77-7

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One of the Beit Zeit Dinosaur Footprints from Beit Zeit, West of Al-<br />

Quds (Jerusalem), Occupied Palestine. 09.07.2013. Photo by: <strong>Prof</strong>. <strong>Dr</strong>.<br />

<strong>Norman</strong> <strong>Ali</strong> <strong>Bassam</strong> <strong>Khalaf</strong>-<strong>von</strong> <strong>Jaffa</strong>.<br />

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50022881@N00/12191856676/<br />

Trackmaker:<br />

In general shape and appearance to trackmaker may have been<br />

similar to the North American genus Struthiomimus. It appears<br />

that the trackmaker belongs to one of the families of the group<br />

Coelurosauria, specially the Coeluridae and Ornithomimidae of<br />

which the first seems to fit the tracks more closely. However,<br />

considering the dinosaur remains discovered in eastern and<br />

northern Africa (Tanzania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt)<br />

the possibility cannot be excluded that Elaphrosaurus bambergi<br />

lived once in the vicinity of Beit Zeit, Palestine. The trackmaker<br />

had an estimated length of the hind-limbs up to the waist, 140 cm;<br />

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