Cretaceous Animals including Dinosaurs of Saudi Arabia

Today's coloring page I drew for you is of 

Cretaceous Animals of Saudi Arabia. 

I guess I should say 

Cretaceous Animals in what is now Saudi Arabia.

Cretaceous Animals, including Dinosaurs of Saudi Arabia

About 12 years ago 2 distinct types of dinosaurs were discovered in Saudi Arabia. This was fragmentary evidence but clearly showed that one animal was a Titanosaur. Another was an Abelisaur. 

A Titanosaur is a type of long-necked Sauropod. Titanosaurs were the biggest animals to ever walk on Earth. Yet some Titanosaurs weighed only 2000 lbs or around 900 kg. These were the small ones living on islands. Other Titanosaurs were the true titans... hence the name Titanosaur. This includes huge animals like Patagotitan that was 122 feet or 37 meters long. It weighed possibly as much as 77 tons. We don't know the actual size of this Titanosaur from Saudi Arabia. There were Titanosaurs from small to large and everywhere in between. 

Abelisaurs were Theropod carnivores with short snouts. One species had short horns on its head. Abelisaurids were originally found in South America, so finding evidence of them living in what is now Saudi Arabia is a big discovery. 

The pterosaur, or flying reptile, is not a flying dinosaur. It is named Inabtanin alarabia. It was a Pterosaur found in what is now Jordan, on the Saudi Arabian border. It was not a tiny Pterosaur. It had a wingspan of almost 18 feet, or over 5 meters wide. It also lived in the Late Cretaceous, so it WAS a contemporary of these dinosaurs. 

The small mammal is indicative of the type of mammals that lived among the dinosaurs. Currently, there is no direct evidence of Cretaceous mammals in what is now Saudi Arabia. However, there is fossil evidence of mammals there AFTER the dinosaurs, so the mammals probably DID live among the dinosaurs. 

NOTE: This coloring page is found in printable form by clicking on the button labeled "Paleontology" and scrolling down to the bottom of the Mesozoic part of the list.  Have fun coloring these animals from the Cretaceous Arabian Peninsula. By the way, I am also posting this in Arabic. Again, click on the button labeled "Paleontology."