Fossils of non-avian dinosaurs are exceptionally rare in Scandinavia, and the Kristianstad Basin is the only location in Sweden where dinosaur fossils have been recovered.
The only other certain traces of dinosaurs in Sweden are footprints of Late Triassic/Early Jurassic age in northwestern Skåne, made by theropods (Eubrontes giganteus and Kayentapus soltykovensis) and thyreophorans.
Though theropod teeth were reported from Ivö Klack by Per-Ove Persson in the 1950s, these have since been identified as fish teeth, probably from the genus Protosphyraena.
Fossil material conclusively identified as dinosaurian was recovered only relatively recently, with material referred to a leptoceratopsid being described in 2007 and further fragmentary fossils of other groups being recovered during excavations from 2010 to 2013.
Fossils of non-avian dinosaurs are exceptionally rare in Scandinavia, and the Kristianstad Basin is the only location in Sweden where dinosaur fossils have been recovered. The only other certain traces of dinosaurs in Sweden are footprints of Late Triassic/Early Jurassic age in northwestern Skåne, made by theropods (Eubrontes giganteus and Kayentapus soltykovensis) and thyreophorans. Though theropod teeth were reported from Ivö Klack by Per-Ove Persson in the 1950s, these have since been identified as fish teeth, probably from the genus Protosphyraena. Fossil material conclusively identified as dinosaurian was recovered only relatively recently, with material referred to a leptoceratopsid being described in 2007 and further fragmentary fossils of other groups being recovered during excavations from 2010 to 2013.
Kristianstad Basin