A new species of the ankylosaurid dinosaur Pinacosaurus from the Late Cretaceous of Inner Mongolia (P.R. China)

Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belqique, Sciences de la Terre

Volumn 69, Issue SUPPL. B, 1999, Pages 17-36

  Godefroit, Pascal ^a   Pereda Suberbiola, Xabier ^a   Li, Hong ^a   Dong, Zhi Ming ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ankylosauria; Inner Mongolia; Late Cretaceous; Pinacosaurus

Indexed keywords

CRETACEOUS; DINOSAUR; NEW SPECIES;

CHINA;

ANKYLOSAURIA; PINACOSAURUS MEPHISTOCEPHALUS;

EID: 6744240498     PISSN: 03746291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. ANDREWS, R.C., 1932. Natural History of Central Asia, volume 1: The new conquest of Central Asia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, 678 pp.
2. BARRETT, P.M., HAILU, Y., UPCHURCH, P. & BURTON, A.C., 1998. A new ankylosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous of Shanxi Province, People's Republic of China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18 (2): 376-384.
3. BERKEY, C.P. & MORRIS, F.K., 1927. Natural History of Central Asia, volume 2. Geology of Mongolia. American Museum of Natural History, New York, 475 pp.
4. BOHLIN, B., 1953. Fossil reptiles from Mongolia and Kansu. Sino-Swedish Expedition Publication, 37: 1-105.
5. BRINKMAN, D.B. & PENG, J.-H., 1996. A new species of Zangerlia (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Upper Cretaceous redbeds at Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia, and the relationships of the genus. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33 (4): 526-540.
6. BROWN, B., 1908. The Ankylosauridae, a new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 24: 187-201.
7. BUFFETAUT, E., 1995. An ankylosaurid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of Shandong (China). Geological Magazine, 132: 683-692.
8. CARPENTER, K., 1982. Skeletal and dermal armor reconstruction of Euoplocephalus tutus (Ornithischia: Ankylosauridae) from the Late Cretaceous Oldman Formation of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 19: 689-697.
9. CARPENTER, K., MILES, C. & CLOWARD, K., 1998. Skull of Jurassic ankylosaur (Dinosauria). Nature, 393: 782-783.
10. COOMBS, W.P., Jr., 1971. The Ankylosauria. Ph. D. Dissertation. Columbia University, New York City (Unpublished).
11. COOMBS, W.P., Jr., 1972. The bony eyelid of Euoplocephalus (Reptilia, Ornithischia). Journal of Paleontology, 46: 637-650.
12. COOMBS, W.P., Jr., 1978. The families of the ornithischian dinosaur order Ankylosauria. Palaeontology, 21 (1): 143-170.
13. COOMBS, W.P., Jr., 1986. A juvenile ankylosaur referable to the genus Euoplocephalus (Reptilia, Ornithischia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 6 (2): 162-173.
14. COOMBS, W.P., Jr. & MARYANSKA, T., 1990. Ankylosauria. In: WEISHAMPEL, D.B., DODSON, P. & OSMOLSKA, H. (Editors), The Dinosauria, University of California Press, Berkeley, pp. 456-483.
15. CURRIE, P.J., 1991. The Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project Expeditions 1988-1990. Geotimes, 36 (4): 18-21.
16. CURRIE, P.J. & PENG, J.-H., 1993. A juvenile specimen of Saurornithoides mongoliensis from the Upper Cretaceous of northern China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (10/11): 2224-2230.
17. DONG, Z-M., 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. SpringerVerlag, Berlin, 188 pp.
18. DONG, Z.-M., 1993a. The field activities of the Sino-Canadian Dinosaur Project in China, 1987-1990. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (10/11): 1997-2001.
19. DONG, Z.-M. 1993b. An ankylosaur (ornithischian dinosaur) from the Middle Jurassic of the Junggar Basin, China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 31 (10): 257-266.
20. DONG, Z.-M. & CURRIE, P.J., 1996. On the discovery of an oviraptorid skeleton on a nest of eggs at Bayan Mandahu, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33 (4): 631-636.
21. DONG, Z., CURRIE, P.J. & RUSSELL, D.A., 1989. The 1988 Field Program of The Dinosaur Project. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 27 (3): 233-236.
22. EBERTH, D.A., 1993. Depositional environments and facies transitions of dinosaur-bearing Upper Cretaceous redbeds at Bayan Mandahu (Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China). Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (10/11): 2196-2213.
23. EBERTH, D.A., RUSSELL, D.A., BRAMAN, D.R. & DEINO, A.L., 1993. The age of the dinosaur-bearing sediments at Tebch, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (10/11): 2101-2106.
24. GALTON, P.M., 1982. Juveniles of the stegosaurian dinosaur Stegosaurus from the Upper Jurassic of North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 2: 47-62.
25. GALTON, P.M., 1983. Armored dinosaurs (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Europe. Palaeontographica Abt. A, 182: 1-25.
26. GAO, K. & HOU, L. 1996. Systematics and taxonomic diversity of squamates from the Upper Cretaceous Djadochta Formation, Bayan Mandahu, Gobi desert. People's Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 33 (4): 578-598.
27. GILMORE, C.W., 1933. Two new dinosaurian reptiles from Mongolia with notes on some fragmentary specimens. American Museum Novitates, 679: 1-20.
28. GODEFROIT, P., DONG, Z., BULTYNCK, P., LI, H. & FENG, L., 1998. New Bactrosaurus (Dinosauria: Hadrosauroidea) material from Iren Dabasu (Inner Mongolia, P.R. China). Bulletin de l 'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Sciences de la Terrre, 68. supplément: 3-70.
29. HAAS, G., 1969. On the jaw muscles of ankylosaurs. American Museum Novitates, 2399: 1-11.
30. JERZYKIEWICZ, T. & RUSSELL, D.A., 1991. Late Mesozoic stratigraphy and vertebrates of the Gobi Basin. Cretaceous Research, 12: 345-377.
31. JERZYKJEWICZ, T., CURRIE, P.J., EBERTH, D.A., JOHNSTON, P.A., KOSTER, E.H. & ZHENG, J.-J., 1993. Djadokhta Formation correlative strata in Chinese Inner Mongolia: an overview of the stratigraphy, sedimentary geology, and paleontology and comparisons with the type locality in the pre-Aldai Gobi. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30 (10-11): 2180-2195.
32. KIRKLAND, J.I., DELGADO, C.R., CHIMEDTSEREN, A., HASIOTIS, S.T. & FOX, E.J., 1998. Insect? bored dinosaur skeletons and associated pupae from the Djadokhta Fm. (Cretaceous, Campanian), Mongolia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 18, supplement to 3: 56A.
33. KURZANOV, S.M. & TUMANOVA, T.A., 1978. The structure of the endocranium in some Mongolian ankylosaurs. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 1978 (3): 369-374 (In Russian).
34. LEHMAN, T.M., 1990. The ceratopsian subfamily Chasmosaurinae: sexual dimorphism and systematics. In: CARPENTER, K. & CURRIE, P.J. (Editors), Dinosaur Systematics: Approaches and Perspectives, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 211-229.
35. LILLEGRAVEN, J.A. & MCKENNA, M.C., 1986. Fossil mammals from the 'Mesaverde' Formation (Late Cretaceous, Judithian) of the Bighorn and Wind River Basins, Wyoming, with definitions of Late Cretaceous North American Land-Mammal "Ages". American Museum Novitates, 2840: 1-68.
36. LOOPE, D.B., DINGUS, L., SWISHER, C.C., III, & MINJIN, C., 1998. Life and death in a Late Cretaceous dune field, Nemegt Basin, Mongolia. Geology, 26 (1): 27-30.
37. MALEEV, E.A., 1952. A new family of armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia. Doklady Akademiya Nauk S.S S.R., 87: 131-134 (In Russian).
38. MALEEV, E.A., 1954. Armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia (Family Armosauridae). Trudy Paleozoologicheskogo Instituta, Akademiya S.S.S.R., 48: 142-170 (In Russian).
39. MALEEV, E.A., 1956. Armoured dinosaurs from the Upper Cretaceous of Mongolia (Family Ankylosauridae). Trudy Paleozoologicheskogo Instituta. Akademiya Nauk S.S.S.R., 62: 51-91 (in Russian).
40. MARYANSKA, T., 1971. New data on the skull of Pinacosaurus grangeri (Ankylosauria). Palaeontologia Polonica, 25: 45-53.
41. MARYANSKA, T., 1977. Ankylosauridae (Dinosauria) from Mongolia. Palaeontologia Polonica, 37: 85-151.
42. MOLNAR, R.E., 1996. Preliminary report on a new ankylosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 39 (3): 653-668.
43. NOPCSA, F., 1915. Die Dinosaurier der siebenbürsischen Land-esteile Ungarns. Mitteilungen aus dem Jahrbuch der königlichen ungarischen geologischen Anstalt, 23: 1-26.
44. NORMAN, D.B., 1984. A systematic reappraisal of the reptile Order Omithischia. In: REIF, W.E. & WESTPHAL, F. (Editors), Third Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems, Short Papers, Attempto Verlag, Tübingen, pp. 157-162.
45. NORMAN, D.B., 1985. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs. Salamander Books, London, 208 pp.
46. OSBORN, H.F., 1923. Two Lower Cretaceous dinosaurs from Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 95: 1-10.
47. OSBORN, H.F., 1924. Three new Theropoda, Protoceratops Zone, Central Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 144: 1-12.
48. OWEN, R., 1842. Report on British fossil reptiles. Part II. Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 11: 60-204.
49. PANG, Q. & CHENG, Z., 1998. A new ankylosaur of Late Cretaceous from Tianzhen, Shanxi. Progress in Natural Science, 8 (3): 326-334.
50. ROUGIER, G.W., NOVACEK, M.J. & DASHZEVEG, D., 1997. A new multituberculate from the Late Cretaceous locality Ukhaa Tolgod, Mongolia. Considerations on multituberculate Interrelationships. American Museum Novitates, 3191: 1-26.
51. ROZHDESTVENSKYI, A.K., 1977. The study of dinosaurs in Asia. In: SINGH, S.N. et al. (Editors), Jurij Alexandrovich Orlov Memorial volume. Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India, 20: 102-119.
52. SEELEY, H.G., 1887. On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 43: 165-171.
53. SERENO, P.C., 1986. Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs (Order Ornithischia). National Geographic Research, 2: 234-256.
54. SULLIVAN, R.M., 1999. Nodocephalosaurus kirtlandensis, gen. et sp. nov., a new ankylosaurid dinosaur (Ornithischia: Ankylosauria) from the Upper Cretaceous Kirtland Formation (Upper Campanian), San Juan Basin, New Mexico. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 19 (1): 126-139.
55. TUMANOVA, T.A., 1977. New data on the ankylosaur Tarchia gigantea. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 1977 (4): 480-486 (In Russian).
56. TUMANOVA, T.A., 1983. The first ankylosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. Transactions of the joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, 24: 110-120 (In Russian).
57. TUMANOVA, T.A., 1986. Skull morphology of the ankylosaur Shamosaurus scutatus from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia. In: Les Dinosaures de la Chine à la France, Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse, Toulouse, pp. 73-79.
58. TUMANOVA, T.A., 1987. The armoured dinosaurs of Mongolia. Transactions of the joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontological Expedition, 32: 1-80 (In Russian).
59. TUMANOVA, T.A., 1993. A new armoured dinosaur from South-Eastern Gobi. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 27 (2): 119-125 (In Russian).
60. WEISHAMPEL, D.B., DODSON, P. & OSMOLSKA, H. (Editors), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley, 716 pp.
61. WIMAN, C., 1929. Die Kreide-Dinosaurier aus Shantung. Palaeonlologia Sinica, Series C, 6: 1-67.
62. YOUNG, C.C., 1935. On a new nodosaurid from Ninghsia. Palaeontologica Sinica, Series C. 11: 5-27.