Different types of dinosaurs lived in Jordan, including reptiles, flying dinosaurs, and marine dinosaurs, as evidenced by fossils recently discovered in Jordan.
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In Jordanian amber, a feather and down dating back 140 million years were discovered. A tooth belonging to a herbivorous dinosaur dating back to the same period was discovered near King Talal Dam by Abbas Haddadin. Another tooth was found in its jaw in the Kho area of Zarqa Governorate. The tooth was 15 cm long and 15 cm in circumference. In an area between Shobak and Petra, dinosaur footprints preserved in rock dating back 95 million years were found. These footprints include three tracks from dinosaur herds. In 1943, a neck bone of a bird dating back 65 million years was discovered in the phosphate area of Russeifa. The vertebrae were 62 cm long. The foot of a giant marine animal, 12 meters long, was discovered called a mammoth marine animal called a mammoth. The foot or flipper was one meter long and 40 cm wide, with seven toe vertebrae, each 10 cm long. This was discovered 20 km south of Qasr al-Kharana. The animal is 65 million years old. Jordan was covered with gymnosperm forests 140 million years ago and had a tropical climate with lots of rain where dinosaurs lived and some of them crossed to Australia, Madagascar, India and Antarctica where they were with Jordan in the continent of Gondwana. Part of Jordan was located on the coast of the Tethys Sea where the lagoons were a source of food for the dinosaurs from fish because of the shallowness of its waters. In the pictures is a dinosaur feather and a tooth that is 140 million years old and another tooth and a fin of a mammoth dinosaur.
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