Ceratopsids ("horned dinosaurs") are known from western North America and Asia, a distribution reflecting an inferred subaerial link between the two landmasses during the Late Cretaceous. However, this clade was previously unknown from eastern North America, presumably due to limited outcrop of the appropriate age and depositional environment as well as the separation of eastern and western Nor...

Throughout prehistory, the cultures of Iran and Western Asia differed in important respects. Many of these differencescan be attributed to the different geographic and environmental conditions in the two regions. Western Iran is largely aheavily divided mountainous region with difficult access whereas Mesopotamia is relatively flat and open to travel andtrade. The early Holocene environment of ...

during field work in western regions of the iranian plateau in the zagros mountains in september 2010, a single specimen belonging to the genus and subgenus eremias fitzinger, 1834 was collected from the protected area of bijar (at about 1619 m elevation) in north of the city of bijar, kurdistan province, western iran (47°, 34’ e; 36°, 00’ n).