A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China
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  • MO Jinyou, XU Xing and Eric BUFFETAUT

    MO Jinyou, XU Xing and Eric BUFFETAUT

    1 Faculty of Earth Sciences, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China; 2 Natural History Museum of Guangxi, Nanning 530012, China; 3 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing 100044, China; 4 CNRS, UMR 8538, Laboratoire de Geologie de lEcole Normale Superieure, 24?rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
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This research is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China to Mo Jinyou (40862001) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to Xu Xing.


A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China
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    A new sauropod dinosaur, Liubangosaurus hei gen. et sp. nov., is erected based on a specimen represented by five articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae, which was discovered in the Lower Cretaceous Napai Formation of Guangxi Province, southern China. This new taxon is diagnosed by a unique combination of derived features: prezygapophysis closely contacts with parapophysis, with the prdl and prpl absent; presence of cavity on the dorsal surface of the diapophysis; neural spine very low, with its distal end level with that of diapophysis; distal end of the neural spine strongly expanded laterally to form a platform; marked fossa formed between the infradiapophyseal lamina and the parapophysis; broad, flat area of featureless bone on lateral surface of neural arch; vertically directed infradiapophyseal lamina expands or bifurcates ventrally to form a inverted “Y”; highly positioned parapophyses large and tear-drop in shape. The discovery of this new taxon increases the diversity of sauropods in China during the Early Cretaceous.

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    A new sauropod dinosaur, Liubangosaurus hei gen. et sp. nov., is erected based on a specimen represented by five articulated middle-caudal dorsal vertebrae, which was discovered in the Lower Cretaceous Napai Formation of Guangxi Province, southern China. This new taxon is diagnosed by a unique combination of derived features: prezygapophysis closely contacts with parapophysis, with the prdl and prpl absent; presence of cavity on the dorsal surface of the diapophysis; neural spine very low, with its distal end level with that of diapophysis; distal end of the neural spine strongly expanded laterally to form a platform; marked fossa formed between the infradiapophyseal lamina and the parapophysis; broad, flat area of featureless bone on lateral surface of neural arch; vertically directed infradiapophyseal lamina expands or bifurcates ventrally to form a inverted “Y”; highly positioned parapophyses large and tear-drop in shape. The discovery of this new taxon increases the diversity of sauropods in China during the Early Cretaceous.

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MO Jinyou, XU Xing and Eric BUFFETAUT.2010. A New Eusauropod Dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Guangxi Province, Southern China[J]. ACTA GEOLOGICA SINICA(English edition),84(6):1328~1335

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  • 收稿日期:2010-04-01
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