New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China
Titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs were once considered rare in the Upper Cretaceous of Asia, but a number of titanosauriforms from this stratigraphic interval have been discovered in China in recent years. In fact, all adequately known Cretaceous Asian sauropods are titanosauriforms, but only a few...
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| author | Fenglu Han Xing Xu Corwin Sullivan Leqing Huang Yu Guo Rui Wu |
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| description | Titanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs were once considered rare in the Upper Cretaceous of Asia, but a number of titanosauriforms from this stratigraphic interval have been discovered in China in recent years. In fact, all adequately known Cretaceous Asian sauropods are titanosauriforms, but only a few have been well studied, lending significance to any new anatomical information that can be extracted from Asia’s Cretaceous sauropod record. Here we give a detailed description of some titanosauriform bones recovered recently from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of Tianyuan County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, southern China. The occurrence of this material in Hunan increases the known geographic range of titanosauriforms in eastern Asia. Although all of the specimens discussed in this paper can be assigned to Titanosauriformes at least tentatively, some bones display a limited number of features that are more typical of basal sauropods and/or derived diplodocoids, suggesting complex patterns of character evolution within Neosauropoda. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a49ec4f7ba7c42ffa307a519b41665322023-12-03T00:24:47ZengPeerJ Inc.PeerJ2167-83592019-12-017e823710.7717/peerj.8237New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern ChinaFenglu Han0Xing Xu1Corwin Sullivan2Leqing Huang3Yu Guo4Rui Wu5School of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, ChinaKey Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, ChinaDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, CanadaHunan Institute of Geological Survey, Changsha, ChinaThe Geological Museum of China, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), Wuhan, ChinaTitanosauriform sauropod dinosaurs were once considered rare in the Upper Cretaceous of Asia, but a number of titanosauriforms from this stratigraphic interval have been discovered in China in recent years. In fact, all adequately known Cretaceous Asian sauropods are titanosauriforms, but only a few have been well studied, lending significance to any new anatomical information that can be extracted from Asia’s Cretaceous sauropod record. Here we give a detailed description of some titanosauriform bones recovered recently from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of Tianyuan County, Zhuzhou City, Hunan Province, southern China. The occurrence of this material in Hunan increases the known geographic range of titanosauriforms in eastern Asia. Although all of the specimens discussed in this paper can be assigned to Titanosauriformes at least tentatively, some bones display a limited number of features that are more typical of basal sauropods and/or derived diplodocoids, suggesting complex patterns of character evolution within Neosauropoda.https://peerj.com/articles/8237.pdfSauropodaTitanosauriformCretaceousChina |
| spellingShingle | Fenglu Han Xing Xu Corwin Sullivan Leqing Huang Yu Guo Rui Wu New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China PeerJ Sauropoda Titanosauriform Cretaceous China |
| title | New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China |
| title_full | New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China |
| title_fullStr | New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China |
| title_full_unstemmed | New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China |
| title_short | New titanosauriform (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) specimens from the Upper Cretaceous Daijiaping Formation of southern China |
| title_sort | new titanosauriform dinosauria sauropoda specimens from the upper cretaceous daijiaping formation of southern china |
| topic | Sauropoda Titanosauriform Cretaceous China |
| url | https://peerj.com/articles/8237.pdf |
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