Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France
The Cherves-de-Cognac site (Charente, France) has yielded a diverse continental microvertebrate fauna of Berriasian (earliest Cretaceous) age. Dinosaur remains are rare, but include three teeth that are referrable to an indeterminate sauropod, which might represent either a titanosauriform, a non-ti...
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| description | The Cherves-de-Cognac site (Charente, France) has yielded a diverse continental microvertebrate fauna of Berriasian (earliest Cretaceous) age. Dinosaur remains are rare, but include three teeth that are referrable to an indeterminate sauropod, which might represent either a titanosauriform, a non-titanosauriform macronarian or a non-neosauropod. The small size of these teeth (with a maximum length of 3 mm, as preserved) and the almost complete absence of emanel wrinkling suggests that they pertained to embryonic or hatchling individuals. The Cherves-de-Cognac sauropod represents a rare occurrence of sauropod embryos/hatchlings, a new sauropod record from the poorly-known terrestrial Berriasian and another possible instance of the persistence of non-diplodocoid, non-titanosauriform sauropods into the Cretaceous. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-30cbe97fc3dc49d389c60a11077e08942022-12-22T03:30:10ZengInstitute of Paleobiology PASActa Palaeontologica Polonica0567-79201732-24212016-08-0161359159610.4202/app.00257.2016Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, FrancePaul M. Barrett0Joane Pouech1Jean-Michel Mazin2Fiona M. Jones3Department of Earth Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UKUMR 7207-UPMC-MNHN-CNRS-Sorbonne Universités, Centre de Recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements, Université Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 6, 4 place Jussieu, 75005 Paris, FranceUMR 5276-CNRS/ENS, Université Lyon1, Campus de la Doua, 2 rue Dubois, Bâtiment Géode, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, FranceDepartment of Zoology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UKThe Cherves-de-Cognac site (Charente, France) has yielded a diverse continental microvertebrate fauna of Berriasian (earliest Cretaceous) age. Dinosaur remains are rare, but include three teeth that are referrable to an indeterminate sauropod, which might represent either a titanosauriform, a non-titanosauriform macronarian or a non-neosauropod. The small size of these teeth (with a maximum length of 3 mm, as preserved) and the almost complete absence of emanel wrinkling suggests that they pertained to embryonic or hatchling individuals. The Cherves-de-Cognac sauropod represents a rare occurrence of sauropod embryos/hatchlings, a new sauropod record from the poorly-known terrestrial Berriasian and another possible instance of the persistence of non-diplodocoid, non-titanosauriform sauropods into the Cretaceous.http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app61/app002572016.pdfteethembrionicsauropodFranceCretaceous |
| spellingShingle | Paul M. Barrett Joane Pouech Jean-Michel Mazin Fiona M. Jones Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France Acta Palaeontologica Polonica teeth embrionic sauropod France Cretaceous |
| title | Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France |
| title_full | Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France |
| title_fullStr | Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France |
| title_short | Teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous) of Cherves-de-Cognac, France |
| title_sort | teeth of embryonic or hatchling sauropods from the berriasian early cretaceous of cherves de cognac france |
| topic | teeth embrionic sauropod France Cretaceous |
| url | http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app61/app002572016.pdf |
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