A New Juvenile Specimen of Lufengosaurus Huenei Young, 1941 (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, Southwest China |
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| Authors: | SEKIYA Toru DONG Zhiming |
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| Institution: | [1]Research Center of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, Jilin University, Changchun 130026, China [2]Key Lab of Past Life and Environment in Northeast Asia, Ministry of Education of China. Changchun 130026, China [3]Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China |
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| Abstract: | A skull and a series of associated cervical vertebrae (ZLJ0112) discovered from the Lower Lufeng Formation (Lower Jurassic) are determined as a juvenile specimen of Lufengosaurus huenei Young 1941 based on amended autapomorphies. Differences between ZLJ0112 and the holotype (subadult specimen) are considered as ontogenetic characteristic changes of L. huenei. Since some of these differences are present in other prosauropod dinosaurs (i.e., forms of the maxillary vascular foramen are irregular; the frontal c... |
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| Keywords: | Prosauropod Lufengosaurus huenei juvenile ontogeny phylogeny Lufeng County Yunnan Province |
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