A medium-sized ornithopod (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation of Lago Colhu Huapi, southern Chubut Province, Argentina

Annals of Carnegie Museum

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-50

  Ibiricu, Lucio M ^a   Martínez, Rubén D ^b   Lamanna, Matthew C ^c   Casal, Gabriel A ^b   Luna, Marcelo ^b   Harris, Jerald D ^d   Lacovara, Kenneth J ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PATAGONIA SAN JUAN BOSCO   (Argentina)

^c SECTION OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY   (United States)

^d DIXIE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Campanian; Gondwana; Late Cretaceous; Maastrichtian; Ornithopoda; Patagonia; South America; Upper Member

Indexed keywords

CAMPANIAN; CRANIUM; DINOSAUR; GONDWANA; ISLAND; MAASTRICHTIAN; NEW RECORD; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ARGENTINA; CHUBUT; COLHUE HUAPI LAKE;

DINOSAURIA; HADROSAURIDAE; ORNITHISCHIA; ORNITHOPODA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77956564192     PISSN: 00974463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2992/007.079.0103     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Boyd, C.A., CM. Brown, RD. Scheetz, and JA. Clarke. 2009. Taxonomic revision of the basal neornithischian taxa Thescelosaurus and Bugenasaura. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 29:758-770.
2. Brett-Surman, M.K. 1979. Phylogeny and paleobiogeography of had-rosaurian dinosaurs. Nature, 227:560-562.
3. Brett-Surman, M.K., and J.R Wagner. 2007. Discussion of character analysis of the appendicular anatomy in Campanian and Maastrichtian North American hadrosaurids-variation and ontogeny. Pp. 135-169, in Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs (K. Carpenter, ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
4. Brochu, C.A. 1996. Closure of neurocentral sutures during crocodilian ontogeny: implications for maturity assessment in fossil archosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16:49-62.
5. Butler, R.J., and P.M. Galton. 2008. The 'dermal armour' of the ornithopod dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden (Early Cretaceous: Barremian) of the Isle of Wight: a reappraisal. Cretaceous Research, 29:636-642.
6. Calvo, J.O., J.D. Porfiri, B. González Riga, and A.W.A. Kellner 2007a. A new Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem from Gondwana with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur. Anais da Academia Brasilia de Ciências, 79:529-541.
7. Calvo, J.O., J.D. Porfiri, and F.E. Novas. 2007b. Discovery of a new ornithopod dinosaur from the Portezuelo Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquén, Patagonia, Argentina. Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, 65:471-483.
8. Carpenter, K., and Y. Wilson. 2008. A new species of Camptosaurus (Ornithopoda: Dinosauria) from the Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Dinosaur National Monument, Utah, and a biome-chanical analysis of its forelimb. Annals of Carnegie Museum, 76:227-263.
9. Casal, G, and M. Luna. 2002. Montaje y estimacíon del tamaño y masa de Notohypsilophodon comodorensis (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda). Ameghiniana, 39:18R.
10. Casal, G, R. Martínez, M. Luna, J.C. Sciutto, and M. Lamanna. 2007. Aeolosaurus colhuehuapensis sp. nov. (Sauropoda, Titanosauria) de la Formación Bajo Barreal, Cretácico Superior de Argentina. Revista Brasileira de Paleontologia, 10:53-62.
11. Cerda, LA. 2008. Gastroliths in an ornithopod dinosaur. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53:351-355.
12. Cooper, M.R. 1985. A revision of the ornithischian dinosaur Kangnasaurus coetzeei, with a classification of the Ornithischia. Annals of the South African Museum, 95:281-313.
13. Coria, RA. 1999. Ornithopod dinosaurs from the Neuquén Group, Patagonia, Argentina: phylogeny and biostratigraphy. Pp. 47-60, in Proceedings of the Second Gondwanan Dinosaur Symposium (Y. Tomida, T.H. Rich, and P. Vickers-Rich, eds.). National Science Museum Monographs, Tokyo.
14. Coria, R.A., and J.O. Calvo. 2002. A new iguanodontian ornithopod from Neuquén Basin, Patagonia, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22:503-509.
15. Coria, R.A., and A.V. Cambiaso. 2007. Ornithischia. Pp. 167-187, in Patagonian Mesozoic Reptiles (Z. Gasparini, L. Salgado, and RA. Coria, eds.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
16. Coria, R.A., A.V. Cambiaso, and L. Salgado. 2007. New records of basal ornithopod dinosaurs in the Cretaceous of north Patagonia. Ameghiniana, 44:473-477.
17. Coria, R.A., and L. Salgado. 1996a. A basal iguanodontian (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of South America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 16:44-457.
18. -. 1996b.'Loncosaurus argentinus' Ameghino, 1899 (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda): a revised description with comments on its phyloge- netic relationships. Ameghiniana, 33:373-376.
19. Forster, CA. 1990. The postcranial skeleton of the ornithopod dinosaur Tenontosaurus tilletti. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 10:273-294.
20. Galton, P.M. 1973. Redescription of the skull and mandible of Parksosaurus from the Late Cretaceous with comments on the family Hypsilophodontidae (Ornithischia). Life Science Contributions of the Royal Ontario Museum, 89:1-21.
21. -. 1974a. The ornithischian dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology, 25:1-152.
22. -. 1974b. Notes on Thescelosaurns, a conservative ornithopod dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous of North America, with comments on ornithopod classification. Journal of Paleontology, 48:1048-1067.
23. -. 1981. Dryosaurus, a hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic of North America and Africa: postcranial skeleton. Paläontologische Zeitschrift, 55:271-312.
24. -. 1995. The species of the basal hypsilophodontid dinosaur Thescelosaurns Gilmore (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Late Cretaceous of North America. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen, 198:291-311.
25. Galton, P.M., and H.P Powell. 1980. The ornithischian dinosaur Camptosaurns prestwichii from the Upper Jurassic of England. Palaeontology, 23:411-443.
26. Gilmore, C.W. 1909. Osteology of the Jurassic reptile Camptosaurus, with a revision of the species of the genus, and descriptions of two new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 36:196-302.
27. -. 1915. Osteology of Thescelosaurus, an orthopodous dinosaur from the Lance Formation of Wyoming. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 49:591-616.
28. He, X., AND K. Cai. 1984. The Middle Jurassic Dinosaur Fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan, Vol.1. The Ornithopod Dinosaurs. Sichuan Publishing House of Science and Technology, Chengdu, People's Republic of China.
29. Hooley, RW. 1925. On the skeleton of Iguanodon atherfieldensis sp. nov., from the Wealden shales of Atherfield (Isle of Wight). Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 81:1-61.
30. Horner, J.R, D.B. Weishampel, and CA. Forster. 2004. Hadrosauridae. Pp. 438-463, in The Dinosauria, Second Edition (D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska, eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley.
31. Huene, F. VON 1929. Los Saurisquios y Ornitisquios del Cretáceo Argentino. Anales del Museo de La Plata, 3:1-196.
32. Irmis, R.B. 2007. Axial skeleton ontogeny in the Parasuchia (Archosauria: Pseudosuchia) and its implications for ontogenetic determination in archosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27:350-361.
33. Janensch, W. 1955. Der ornithopode Dysalotosaurus der Tendaguruschichten. Palaeontographica, Supplement, 7:105-176.
34. Lamanna, M.C., A.M. Luna, G.A. Casal, RD. Martínez, L. Ibiricu, and J.C. Sciutto. 2003. New crocodyliform and dinosaur discoveries from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian-Maastrichtian) Upper Member of the Bajo Barreal Formation, southern Chubut Province, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23(3):7OA.
35. Lamanna, M.C., RD. Martínez, and J.B. Smith. 2002. A definitive abelisaurid theropod dinosaur from the early Late Cretaceous of Patagonia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 22:58-69.
36. Lambe, L.M. 1920. The hadrosaur Edmontosaurus from the Upper Cretaceous of Alberta. Canada Department of Mines Memoir, 120:1-79.
37. Lull, R.S., and N.E. Wright. 1942. Hadrosaurian dinosaurs of North America. Geological Society of America Special Paper, 40:1-242.
38. Luna, M., G Casal, R Martínez, M. Lamanna, L. Ibiricu, and E. Ivany. 2003. La presencia de un Ornithopoda (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) en el Miembro Superior de la Formación Bajo Barreal (Campaniano- Maastrichtianö) del sur del Chubut. Ameghiniana, 4O:61R
39. Martínez, R.D. 1998. Notohypsilophodon comodorensis gen. et sp. nov. Un Hypsilophodontidae (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) del Cretácico Superior de Chubut, Patagonia central, Argentina. Acta Geologica Leopoldensia, 21:119-135.
40. Martínez, R.D., O. Giménez, J. Rodríguez, M. Luna, and M.C. Lamanna. 2004. An articulated specimen of the basal titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) Epachthosaurus sciuttoi from the early Late Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation of Chubut Province, Argentina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24:107-120.
41. Martínez, R.D., and F.E. Novas. 2006. Aniksosaurus darwini gen. et sp. nov., a new coelurosaurian theropod from the early Late Cretaceous of central Patagonia, Argentina. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, n.s., 8:243-259.
42. Molnar, R. 1980. Australian Late Mesozoic terrestrial tetrapods: some implications. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France, N.S., 139:131-143.
43. Nopcsa, F. 1929. Sexual differences in ornithopodous dinosaurs. Palaeobiologica, 2:187-200.
44. Norman D.B. 1980. On the ornithischian dinosaur Iguanodon bernis-sartensis from the Lower Cretaceous of Bernissart (Belgium). Mémoire de l'lnstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique, 178:1-103.
45. -. 1986. On the anatomy of Iguanodon atherfieldensis (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda). Bulletin de l'lnstitut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique: Sciences de la Terre, 56:281-372.
46. Novas, F.E., A.V. Cambiaso, and A. Ambrosio. 2004. A new basal iguan-odontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia. Ameghiniana, 41:75-82.
47. Parks, W.A. 1926. Thescelosaurus warreni, a new species of orthopo-dous dinosaur from the Edmonton Formation of Alberta. University of Toronto Studies, Geological Series, 21:3-42.
48. Powell, J.E. 2003. Revision of South American titanosaurid dinosaurs: palaeobiological, palaeobiogeographical, and phylogenetic aspects. Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, 111:1-173.
49. Prieto-Marquez, A. 2007. Postcranial osteology of the hadrosaurid dinosaur Brachylophosaurus canadensis from the Late Cretaceous of Montana. Pp. 91-115, in Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs (K. Carpenter, ed.). Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
50. Salgado, L., and RA. Coria. 1993. El género Aeolosaurus (Sauropoda, Titanosauridae)enlaFormaciónAllen (Campaniano-Maastrichtiano) de la provincia de Río Negro, Argentina. Ameghiniana, 30:119-128.
51. Salgado, L., RA. CoRIa, and S.E. Heredia. 1997. New materials of Gasparinìsaura cincosaltensis (Ornithischia, Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of Argentina. Journal of Paleontology, 71:933-940.
52. Santucci, R.M., AND RJ. Bertini. 2001. Distribuição paleogeográfí̌ca e biocronológica dos titanossauros (Saurischia, Sauropoda) do Grupo Bauru, Cretáceo Superior do sudeste Brasileiro. Revista Brasileira de Geociências, 31:307-314.
53. Scheetz, R.D. 1999. Osteology of Orodromeus makelaì and the phylog-eny of basal ornithopod dinosaurs. Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Montana State University, Bozeman.
54. Sciutto, J.C., O. Césari, and N. Iantanos. In press. Hoja geológica 4569-IV Escalante, Escala 1:25O,OOO. Programa Nacional de Cartas Geológicas de la República Argentina, Secretaría de Minería de la Nación, Dirección Nacional del Servicio Geológico, Buenos Aires.
55. Suzuki, D., D.B. Weishampel, and N. Minoura. 2004. Nipponosaurus sachalìnensìs (Dinosauria; Ornithopoda): anatomy and systematic position within Hadrosauridae. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 24:145-164.
56. Tapia, A. 1919. Una mandibula de Dinosaurio procedente de Patagonia. Revista de la Sociedad Argentina de Ciencias Naturales, 4:369-370.
57. Taquet, P. 1976. Geologie et paleontologie de gisement de Gadoufaoua (Aptien du Niger). Cahier Paleontologie., C.N.R.S. Paris, 1-191.
58. Torses, J., and L. Viera. 1994. Hypsilophodon foxii (Reptilia, Ornithischia) en el Cretácico inferior de Igea (La Rioja, España). Munibe, 46:3-41.
59. Vickers-Rich, P., AND T.H. Rich. 1999. Wildlife of Gondwana: Dinosaurs and Other Vertebrates from the Ancient Supercontinent. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis. 304 pp.
60. Weishampel, D.B., and J.R. Horner. 1990. Hadrosauridae. Pp. 534- 561, in The Dinosauria (D.B. Weishampel, P. Dodson, and H. Osmólska, eds.). University of California Press, Berkeley.
61. Weishampel, D.B., C.-M. Jianu, Z. Csiki, and D.B. Norman. 2003. Osteology and phylogeny of Zalmoxes (n. g.), an unusual euorni- thopod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1:65-123.
62. WlNKLER, DA., PA. Murby, AND L.L. Jacobs. 1997. A new species of Tenontosaurus (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Early Cretaceous of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 17:330-348.