Notice of nodosaur (Dinosauria,Ankylosauria) remains from the mid-Cretaceous of Cambridge,England, with comments on cervical half-ring armour     

William T. Blows 《Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. Geologists' Association》2014

Three pieces from cervical half-rings of an immature nodosaur, part of a nodosaurid presacral rod and some post-cranial osteoderms from the Cretaceous of Cambridge were studied at the Booth Museum of Natural History, Brighton, UK. Two of the three half-ring elements show dorsal ridge morphologies distinct from each other, and all three have unfused sutured lateral borders. It is possible they may be derived from the same animal. Comparison with other material from the Cretaceous of Europe, USA and Asia indicates the presence of a large nodosaurid in the Cambridge Greensand fauna, with cervical half-ring morphologies similar to North American taxa, but unlike any previously known from the European Cretaceous.  相似文献   

New Nodosaurid Dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Lishui, Zhejiang Province, China   总被引：6，自引：0，他引：6       下载免费PDF全文

LU Junchang JIN Xingsheng SHENG Yiming LI Yihong WANG Guoping Yoichi AZUMA 《《地质学报》英文版》2007,81(3):344-350

A new genus and species of nodosaurid dinosaur： Zhejiangosaurus lishuiensis gen. et sp. nov. is erected herein. It is characterized by the sacrum consisting of at least three true sacral vertebrae, 5 caudal dorsal vertebrae fused to form the presacral rod, wide divergence of long slender preacetabular process of the ilium from the middle line of the body, and the fourth trochanter located at the femoral mid-length.  相似文献   

A New Nodosaurid Ankylosaur from the Chaochuan Formation of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, China     

CHEN Rongjun  ZHENG Wenjie  Yoichi AZUMA  Masateru SHIBATA  LOU Tianliang  JIN Qiang  JIN Xingsheng 《《地质学报》英文版》2013,87(3):658-671

Dongyangopelta yangyanensis gen. et sp. nov. from the Chaochuan Formation (Albian-Cenomanian) of Dongyang, Zhejiang Province, China is characterized: the convex anterior surface of the first presacral rod centrum strongly inflates laterally and slightly curves posteriorly; the fused pelvic shield composes of larger pebble-shaped bosses, defined by smaller tubercles or flat stretches of bone; most osteoderms are heavily roughened with notches and grooves for dermal attachment along the edge; domed triradiate osteoderm is present; sigmoid curvature of the dorsal surface of the ilium is present; the preacetabular process curves lateroventrally at the anterior end and has a shallow groove in the edge of the lateral and anterior ends and strong lateromedial expansion of the distal femur. The femoral head is well separated from the greater trochanter, indicating that Dongyangopelta is a nodosaurid ankylosaur, the second from southeast China. Phylogenetic analysis also positions this taxon in the Nodosauridae clade. Dongyangopelta differs from Zhejiangosaurus in the characters of presacral rod, ilium, and femur. Dongyangopelta represents the first ankylosaur outside North America and Europe that definitively possesses a pelvic shield with fused armor.  相似文献