A basal sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Morocco

Comptes Rendus - Palevol

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 199-208

  Allain, Ronan ^a,b   Aquesbi, Najat ^c   Dejax, Jean ^a   Meyer, Christian ^d   Monbaron, Michel ^e   Montenat, Christian ^f   Richir, Philippe ^a   Rochdy, Mohammed ^c   Russell, Dale ^g   Taquet, Philippe ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^c Rue Abou Marouane Essadi BP: Rabat Instituts 6208 Haut Agdal   (Morocco)

^d NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BASEL   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^f Inst Geol Albert de Lapparent IGAL   (France)

^g NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dinosaurs; Early Jurassic; Morocco; Phylogeny; Sauropoda

Indexed keywords

DINOSAUR; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; JURASSIC; PHYLOGENY;

AFRICA; ATLAS MOUNTAINS; HIGH ATLAS; MOROCCO; NORTH AFRICA;

DINOSAURIA; SAUROPODA;

EID: 2542462907     PISSN: 16310683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2004.03.001     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Amrhar M. Bouabdelli M. Piqué A. Les marqueurs structuraux et magmatiques de l'extension crustale dans le Haut-Atlas occidental (Maroc) au Dogger, témoins de l'évolution de la marge orientale de l'Atlantique central C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. IIa 324 1997 119-126
2. Anderson J.F. Hall-Martin A. Russell D.A. Long-bone circumference and weight in mammals, birds and dinosaurs J. Zool. Lond. 207 1985 53-61
3. Buffetaut E. Suteethhorn V. Cuny G. Tong H. Le Loeuff J. Khansubha S. Jongautchariyakul S. The earliest known sauropod dinosaur Nature 407 2000 72-74
4. Buffetaut E. Suteethorn V. Le Lœuff J. Cuny G. Tong H. Khansubha S. The first giant dinosaurs: A large sauropod from the Late Triassic of Thailand C. R. Palevol 1 2002 103-109
5. Cooper M.R. A reassessment of Vulcanodon karibaensis Raath (dinosauria: Saurischia) and the origin of the Sauropoda Palaeontol. Afr. 25 1984 203-231
6. Dong Z. Zhou S. Zhang Y. The dinosaurian remains from Sichuan Basin, China Palaeontol. Sinica 23 1983 1-145
7. Duncan R.A. Hooper P.R. Rehacek J. Marsh J.G. Duncan A.R. The timing and duration of the Karoo igneous event, southern Gondwana J. Geophys. Res. 102 1997 127-138
8. Farris J.S. Hennig86 1988 Port Jefferson station New York Version 1.5
9. Fallot P. Moret L. Roch E. Sur la série liasique du pays de Skoura (Haut-Atlas marocain) C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 199 1934 1135-1138
10. Gillette D.D. The geographic and phylogenetic position of sauropod dinosaurs from the Kota formation (Early Jurassic) of India J. Asian Earth Sci. 21 2003 683-689
11. He X.-L. Wang C.-S. Liu S.-Z Zhou F.-Y. Liu T.-Q. Cai K.-J. Dai B. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic in Gongxian County, south Sichuan Acta Geol. Sichuan 18 1998 1-6
12. Ishigaki S. Les empreintes de dinosaures du Jurassique inférieur du Haut-Atlas central marocain Notes Mém. Serv. Géol. Maroc 44 1988 79-86
13. Jain S.L. Kutty T.S. Roy-Chowdhury T. Chatterjee S. The sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Kota formation of India Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 188 1975 221-228
14. Jain S.L. Kutty T.S. Roy-Chowdhury T. Chatterjee S. Some characteristics of Barapasaurus tagorei, a sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of Deccan, India, IV Int. Gondwana Symp., Calcutta, India 1 1979 204-216
15. Jones D.L. Duncan R.A. Briden J.C. Randall D.E. MacNiocaill C. Age of the Bakota basalts, northern Zimbabwe, and the duration of Karoo Large igneous province magmatism Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2 2001 2000GC000110
16. de Lapparent A.F. Étude paléontologique des vertébrés du Jurassique d'El Mers (Moyen Atlas) Notes Mém. Serv. Géol. Maroc 124 1955 1-36
17. Laville E. Lesage J.-L. Séguret M. Géométrie, cinématique (dynamique) de la tectonique atlasique sur le versant sud du Haut Atlas marocain. Aperçu sur les tectoniques hercyniennes et tardi-hercyniennes Bull. Soc. géol. France 29 1977 527-539
18. Lockley M.G. Wright J.L. Hunt A.P. Lucas S.G. The Late Triassic sauropod track record comes into focus: Old legacies and new paradigms New Mexico Geol. Soc. Guidebook 52 2001 181-190
19. McIntosh J.H. Miles C.A. Cloward D.A. Parker J.R. A new nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus Bull. Gunma Mus. Nat. Hist. 1 1996 1-87
20. Monbaron M. Taquet P. Découverte du squelette complet d'un grand Cétiosaure (Dinosaure Sauropode) dans le bassin jurassique moyen de Tilougguit (Haut-Atlas central, Maroc) C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. II 292 1981 243-246
21. Monbaron M. Russell D.A. Taquet P. Atlasaurus imelakei, n.g., n.sp., a brachiosaurid-like sauropod from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Ser. IIa 329 1999 519-526
22. Olsen P.E. Kent D.V. Sues H.-D. Koeberl C. Huber H. Montanari A. Rainforth E.C. Fowell S.J. Szajna M.J. Hartline B.W. Ascent of dinosaurs linked to an iridium anomaly at the Triassic-Jurassic boundary Science 296 2002 1305-1307
23. Raath M.A. Fossil vertebrate studies in Rhodesia: A new dinosaur (Reptilia: Saurischia) from near the Trias-Jurassic boundary Arnoldia 5 1972 1-37
24. Roch E. Description géologique des montagnes à l'Est de Marrakech Notes Mém. Serv. Mines Carte géol. Maroc 80 1939 1-438
25. Upchurch P. The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. B 349 1995 365-390
26. Upchurch P. The phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 124 1998 43-103
27. Upchurch P. Barrett P.M. The evolution of sauropod feeding mechanisms Sues H.-D. The Evolution of Herbivory in Terrestrial Vertebrates, Perspectives from the Fossil Record 2000 79-122 Cambridge University Press Cambridge
28. Weishampel D.B. Sauropoda Weishampel D.B. Dodson P. Osmólska H. The Dinosauria 1990 63-139 Univ. California Press Berkeley, CA
29. Wilson J.A. A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs J. Vert. Paleontol. 19 1999 639-653
30. Wilson J.A. Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: Critique and cladistic analysis Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 136 2002 217-276
31. Wilson J.A. Carrano M.T. Titanosaurs and the origin of 'wide gauge' trackways: A biomechanical and systematic perspective on sauropod locomotion Paleobiology 25 1999 252-267
32. Wilson J.A. Sereno P.C. Early evolution and higher-level phylogeny of sauropod dinosaurs Mem. Soc. Vert. Paleontol. 18 1998 1-68
33. Yadigiri P. A new sauropod Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis from Lower Jurassic Kota Formation of India Rec. Geol. Surv. India 11 1988 102-127
34. Yadigiri P. The osteology of Kotasaurus yamanpalliensis, a sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic Kota Formation of India J. Vert. Paleontol. 21 2001 242-252
35. Yates A.M. Kitching J.W. The earliest known sauropod dinosaur and the first steps towards sauropod locomotion Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 2003 DOI 10.1098/rspb.2003.2417