Lamplughsaura et Pradhania

Posté par Lolo il y a 17 ans

Kutty, T.S., Chatterjee, S., Galton, P.M. & Upchurch, P. (2007). Basal Sauropodomorphs (Dinosauria: Saurischia) from the lower Jurassic of India: their anatomy and relationships. Journal of Paleontology 81 (6): 1218-1240

The Upper Dharmaram Formation (Lower Jurassic, Sinemurian) of India has yielded three sauropodomorph dinosaurs, two new taxa and an indeterminate one. Lamplughsaura dharmaramensis n. gen. and sp., represented by several partial skeletons, is a heavily built quadrupedal form (body length ∼10 m). Autapomorphies include teeth with strongly emarginated distal edge; caudal cervical neural spines bearing a vertically oriented ligamentous furrow on cranial and caudal surfaces and a transversely expanded spine table; caudal neural spines bearing a craniodorsally directed spur (proximal caudal vertebrae) or a large process (midcaudal vertebrae); caudal neural spines shorter than transverse processes so former lost first in passing along tail; and a plesiomorphy that is the nontrenchant form of manual ungual I. The Indian dinosaurs were coded for two recent datamatrices for basal sauropodomorphs. The results of this preliminary analysis indicate that Lamplughsaura is either a basal Sauropoda or, less likely, based on Templeton's test, a stem sauropodomorph. The second large form, represented by the proximal half of a femur, is a sauropodomorph that is more derived than Saturnalia (Brazil) and Thecodontosaurus (Great Britain) from the Upper Triassic. This is also true for the smaller (body length ∼4 m as adult) Pradhania gracilis n. gen. and sp. which lies outside of the Sauropoda + Plateosauria clade, so it is definitely a stem sauropodomorph. Pradhania is known from fragmentary material; an autapomorphy is the very prominent medial longitudinal ridge on the maxilla

Posté par Kroenen il y a 17 ans

Esperons que tout le monde est bilingue , sinon c'est un document fort interessant , merci !

Posté par Utahraptor il y a 17 ans

Merci pr l'info!
Apparemment,les sauropodomorphes sont bien présents à cette époque en Inde...