Redescription of the wrist and manus of?Bothriospondylus madagascariensis: New data on carpus morphology in Sauropoda

Geodiversitas

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 549-560

  Läng, Émilie ^a   Goussard, Florent ^a  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

Carpus; Dinosauria; Homology; Manus; Sauropoda

Indexed keywords

COSCINODISCOPHYCEAE; DINOSAURIA; PLATEOSAURUS; SAUROPODA; SAUROPODOMORPHA;

EID: 38348999242     PISSN: 12809659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. ALLAIN R. & AQUESBI N. in press. - Anatomy and phylogenetic relationships of Tazoudasaurus naimi (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the late Early Jurassic of Morocco. Geodiversitas.
2. APESTEGUÍA S. 2005. - Evolution of the titanosaur metacarpus, in TIDWELL V. & CARPENTER K. (eds), Thunderlizards. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis: 321-345.
3. BONAPARTE J. F. 1986. - The early radiation and phylogenetic relationships of the Jurassic sauropod dinosaurs, based on vertebral anatomy, in PADIAN K. (ed.), The Beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge: 247-258.
4. BONNAN M. F. 2003. - The evolution of manus shape in sauropod dinosaurs: implications for functional morphology, forelimb orientation and phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 23: 595-613.
5. BROOM R. 1911. - On the dinosaurs of the Stormberg, South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum (series 7): 291-308.
6. BURKE A. C. & ALBERCH P. 1985. - The development and homology of the chelonian carpus and tarsus. Journal of Morphology 186: 119-131.
7. COLLIGNON M. 1954. - Découverte de dinosauriens à Tsinjorano, district d'Ambato-Boeni. Bulletin de l'Académie malgache 31: 59-61.
8. COOPER M. R. 1981. - The prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen from Zimbabwe: its biology, mode of life and phylogenetic significance. Occasional Papers of the National Museums and Monuments, Rhodesia (Series B, Natural Sciences) 6: 689-840.
9. GILMORE C. W 1936. - Osteology of Apatosaurus with special reference to specimens in the Carnegie Museum. Memoirs of the Carnegie Museum 11: 175-300.
10. HATCHER J. B. 1902. - Structure of the forelimb and manus of Brontosaurus. Annals of Carnegie Museum 1: 356-376.
11. HUENE F. VON 1932. - Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte. Monographien zur Geologie und Palaeontologie (serie 1)4: 1-361.
12. JANENSCH W 1922. - Das Handskelett von Gigantosaurus robustus und Brachiosaurus brancai aus den Tendaguru-Schichten Deutsch-Ostafrikas. Centralblatt für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 15: 464-480.
13. JANENSCH W 1961. - Die Gliedmaszen und Gliedmaszengürtel der Sauropoden der Tendaguru-Schichten. Palaeontographica suppl. VII: 177-235.
14. LAVOCAT R. 1955a. - Les recherches de reptiles fossiles à Madagascar. Le Naturaliste malgache VII: 203-207.
15. LAVOCAT R. 1955b. - Étude des gisements de dinosauriens de la région de Majunga (Madagascar). Travaux du Bureau géologique, Service géologique de Tananarive 69: 1-19.
16. LAVOCAT R. 1955C. - Sur un membre antérieur du dinosaurien sauropode Bothriospondylus Owen, recueilli à Madagascar. Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris 240: 1795-1796.
17. LAVOCAT R. 1957. - Sur les couches à dinosauriens de Madagascar. Comptes-Rendus du Service géologique de Madagascar 2: 363-364.
18. MATERIALISE 2007. - Mimics®, version 10.1, X64. Supplied by the UMR 5143 CNRS, Paris.
19. MCINTOSH J. S. 1990. - Sauropoda, in WEISHAMPEL D. B., DODSON P. & OSMOLSKA H. (eds), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley: 345-401.
20. MCINTOSH J. S., MILLER W E., STADTMAN K. L. & GILLETTE D. D. 1996a. - The osteology of Camarasaurus lewisi (Jensen, 1988). Brigham Young University Geology Studies 41: 73-115.
21. MCINTOSH J. S., MILES C. A., CLOWARD K. C. & PARKER J. R. 1996b. - A new nearly complete skeleton of Camarasaurus. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 1: 1-87.
22. MONBARON M., RUSSELL D. A. & TAQUET P. 1999. - Atlasaurus imelakei n.g., n.sp., a brachiosaurid-like sauropod from the Middle Jurassic of Morocco. Comptes-Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences de Paris, Sciences de la Terre et des Planètes 329: 519-526.
23. MÜLLER G. B. & ALBERCH P. 1990. - Ontogeny of the limb skeleton in Alligator mississippiensis: developmental invariance and change in the evolution of archosaur limbs. Journal of Morphology 203: 151-164.
24. OGIER A. 1975. - Etude de nouveaux ossements de Bothriospondylus (Sauropode) d'un gisement du Bathonien de Madagascar. Thèse, Université de Paris VI, France, 111 p.
25. OSBORN H. F. 1904. - Manus, sacrum, and caudals of Sauropoda. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 20: 181-190.
26. OSBORN H. F. & GRANGER W. 1901. - Fore and hind limbs of Sauropoda from the Bone Cabin Quarry. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 14: 199-208.
27. OUYANG H. & YE Y. 2002. - [The First Mamenchisaurian Skeleton with Complete Skull, Mamenchisaurus youngi]. Sichuan Science and Technology Publishing House, Chengdu, 111 p. (in Chinese with extended English abstract).
28. ROMERA. S. 1956. - Osteology of the Reptiles. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 772 p.
29. UPCHURCH P. 1998. - The phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 124: 43-103.
30. UPCHURCH P., BARRETT P. M. & DODSON P. 2004. - Sauropoda, in WEISHAMPEL D. B., DODSON P. & OSMOLKA H. (eds), The Dinosauria, 2nd ed. University California Press, Berkeley: 259-322.
31. WILSON J. A. 2002. - Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 136: 217-276.
32. WILSON J. A. & SERENO P. C. 1998. - Early evolution and higher-level phylogeny of sauropod dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18: 1-68.
33. ZHANG Y. 1988. - The Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, China. Volume III. Sauropod Dinosaur (I). Shunosaurus. Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology, Chengdu, 89 p. (in Chinese with extended English summary).