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1. Fossil assemblage from the Khok Pha Suam locality of northeastern, Thailand: an overview of vertebrate diversity from the Early Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation (Aptian-Albian)

Author

Sita Manitkoon, Uthumporn Deesri, Komsorn Lauprasert, Prapasiri Warapeang, Thanit Nonsrirach, Apirut Nilpanapan, Kamonlak Wongko, and Phornphen Chanthasit

Subjects
Paleontology, QE701-760
Abstract

The Khok Pha Suam locality in the province of Ubon Ratchathani, northeastern, Thailand, is known as “the last home of Thai dinosaurs”, because it belongs to the Lower Cretaceous Khok Kruat Formation (Aptian-Albian) which is currently the youngest Mesozoic vertebrate fossil producing formation in the Khorat Group. Here, we describe a diverse vertebrate assemblage, including hybodonts, ray-finned fishes, turtles, crocodyliforms, pterosaurs, and dinosaurs from the Khok Pha Suam locality. The updated data on the Khok Kruat fauna provides a better understanding of the variety and distribution of Early Cretaceous continental ecosystems, which are useful for palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. In addition to consolidating unincorporated data on fauna, this study also provides the palaeontological data necessary to illustrate the palaeoecosystem to the general public, as well as improving the academic value of the Pha Chan-Sam Phan Bok Geopark.

Published
2022
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2. Gavialis from the Pleistocene of Thailand and its relevance for drainage connections from India to Java.

Author

Jeremy E Martin, Eric Buffetaut, Wilailuck Naksri, Komsorn Lauprasert, and Julien Claude

Subjects
Medicine, Science
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BackgroundThe genus Gavialis comprises a single living but endangered species, G. gangeticus, as well as fossil species recorded in the Miocene to Pleistocene deposits of the Indian subcontinent. The genus is also represented in the Pleistocene deposits of Java by the species G. bengawanicus, which was recently recognized to be valid. Surprisingly, no detailed report of the genus exists between these two provinces and the recent evolutionary history of Gavialis is not understood.Methodology/principal findingsWe report new material consisting of skull and mandibular remains of Gavialis from the Early Pleistocene of Khok Sung, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, northeastern Thailand. The Gavialis material described herein is attributed to Gavialis cf. bengawanicus and sheds new light on the occurrence of the genus in mainland SE Asia.Conclusions/significanceComparison of this new material with other species referred to the genus Gavialis led us to preliminary restrict the content of the genus to three species, namely G. gangeticus Gmelin, G. bengawanicus Dubois and G. lewisi Lull. The occurrence of G. cf. bengawanicus in Thailand allows us to propose a scenario for the dispersal of Gavialis from Indo-Pakistan to Indonesia, thus bridging a geographical gap between these two provinces. Dispersal by sea appears a less likely possibility than dispersal through fluvial drainages.

Published
2012
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3. An Eocene tomistomine from peninsular Thailand

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Komsorn Lauprasert, Varavudh Suteethorn, Jeremy E. Martin, Haiyan Tong, Eric Buffetaut, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Palaeontology Section, Bureau of Geological Survey, Department of Mineral Resources, Palaeontology Section, Bureau of Geological Survey, Department of Mineral Resources - Bangkok, Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)

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010506 paleontology, Mandibular symphysis, biology, Symphysis, Alveolar process, Rostrum, Paleontology, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Anatomy, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Skull, medicine.anatomical_structure, Geography, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Maxilla, medicine, Tomistominae, Splenial, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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International audience; Skull and mandibular elements of a tomistomine crocodilian are described from the late Eocene to early Oligocene lignite seams of Krabi, peninsular Thailand. The Thai tomistomine is a longirostrine form characterized by a rostrum/skull ratio of about 0.6; a mandibular symphysis reaching the level of the eleventh alveolus; a deep participation of the splenial in the symphysis to the level of ninth alveolus; an enlarged fifth maxillary alveolus; long nasals reaching the premaxillae at the level of the fifth maxillary alveolus but not contributing to the external nares; undivided posterior processes of premaxillae; a short prefrontal, excluded by a longer lacrimal from the posteromedial margin of maxillae; vomers visible on the palate. A phylogenetic analysis recovers the Thai specimen among derived tomistomines, on the stem lineage of the extant Tomistoma schlegelii, as a close ally of Maomingosuchus petrolica, a late Eocene tomistomine from southern China. The present recognition of Maomingosuchus sp. in late Eocene Thai deposits expands the distribution of Eocene tomistomines from southern China to the tropics. The origin of Tomistominae in Asia is briefly discussed.; Des éléments crâniens et mandibulaires d’un crocodilien tomistominé sont décrits en provenance de niveaux à lignite de l’Eocène supérieur à Oligocène inférieur de Krabi sur la péninsule Thailandaise. Le tomistominé Thaïlandais est caractérisé par un crâne de type longirostre présentant un ratio rostre/crâne d’environ 0.6 ; une symphyse mandibulaire qui atteint le niveau du onzième alvéole ; une participation profonde du splénial dans la symphyse mandibulaire au niveau du neuvième alvéole ; un cinquième alvéole maxillaire élargi ; les os du nasal qui atteignent les prémaxillaires au niveau du cinquième alvéole maxillaire mais ne participant pas aux narines externes ; des processus postérieurs des prémaxillaires non-divisés ; un préfrontal court, exclu de la marge postéromédiale des maxillaires par un lacrimal plus long ; un vomer visible sur le palais. Une analyse phylogénétique place le spécimen Thaïlandais au sein des tomistominés dérivés, au sein de la lignée de l’actuel Tomistoma schlegelii, et proche de Maomingosuchus petrolica, un taxon de la fin de l’Eocène connu en Chine du sud. La présente découverte de Maomingosuchus sp. dans l’Eocène tardif de Thaïlande étend l’aire de répartition des tomistominés eocènes depuis la Chine du sud jusqu’aux tropiques. L’origine des Tomistominae en Asie est brièvement discutée.

Published
2019

4. A new freshwater teleosaurid from the Jurassic of northeastern Thailand

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Suravech Suteethorn, Haiyan Tong, Celine Salaviale, Eric Buffetaut, Julien Claude, Jeremy E. Martin, Uthumporn Deesri, Komsorn Lauprasert, Romain Liard, Varavudh Suteethorn, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Mahasarakham University, PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)

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010506 paleontology, Fossil Record, biology, Paleontology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Teleosauridae, biology.organism_classification, 01 natural sciences, Core (optical fiber), [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], 14. Life underwater, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, Geology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

International audience; The core of the fossil record of Teleosauridae, a family of thalattosuchian crocodylomorphs, is well known from western Tethyan marine deposits of the Jurassic. Outside this province, their fossil record is patchy and in need of revision, with specimens from Russia, Madagascar, and Asia. Peipehsuchus teleorhinus is known from the Early or Middle Jurassic of China and teleosaurid specimens have been mentioned or preliminarily described from two Jurassic localities in Thailand, yet they were not assigned to a given taxon. Thanks to recent field work, at least 10 individuals represented by cranial material were excavated and prepared from a single Jurassic locality known as Phu Noi in the lower Phu Kradung Formation of northeastern Thailand. Here, we describe these specimens, together with disarticulated postcranial elements, and erect a new taxon, Indosinosuchus potamosiamensis, gen. et sp. nov. Phylogenetic analyses confirm the teleosaurid affinities of the new species, which does not form an exclusive clade with the Chinese teleosaurid Peipehsuchus teleorhinus. The presence of teleosaurids at Phu Noi and a preliminary account of its faunal content favor a Middle to Late Jurassic age for the fossil-bearing horizon. In contrast, Cretaceous deposits in Thailand are characterized by goniopholidids and pholidosaurids, indicating a faunal turnover in Southeast Asia across the Jurassic–Cretaceous. As previously shown by isotope data, the new teleosaurid species was a resident of the freshwater environment and co-occurs with remains of exclusively terrestrial taxa such as sauropod, ornithopod, and theropod dinosaurs and freshwater tetrapods such as turtles and temnospondyls.

Published
2019

5. Investigation of the occurrences of Monitor Lizards (Varanus sp.) from Late Pleistocene to Holocene in continental South-East Asia

Author

Corentin Bochaton, Pauline Hanot, Hubert Forestier, Prasit Auetrakulvit, Pau Hen Sophady, Frère Stéphane, Christophe Griggo, Wilailuck Naksi, Julien Claude, Komsorn Lauprasert, Valéry Zeitoun, Mécanismes Adaptatifs et Evolution (MECADEV), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéozoologie, archéobotanique : sociétés, pratiques et environnements (AASPE), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Archaeology, Silpakorn University-Faculty of Archaeology, Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap), Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226, Centre de recherche sur la Paléobiodiversité et les Paléoenvironnements (CR2P), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Mécanismes adaptatifs : des organismes aux communautés (MECADEV), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Faculty of Archaeology- Silpakorn University [Bangkok, Thaïlande], Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Referent HAL Edytem, Christine Maury

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[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, [SDE.MCG] Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, [SDE.IE]Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering, [SHS.GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography, [SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes, [SDE.IE] Environmental Sciences/Environmental Engineering, [SDE.ES] Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society, [SHS.GEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, [SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Abstract

International audience

Published
2018

6. Strontium isotopes and the long-term residency of thalattosuchians in the freshwater environment

Author

Jeremy E. Martin, Haiyan Tong, Eric Buffetaut, Vincent Balter, Guillaume Suan, Suravech Suteethorn, Athiwat Wattanapituksakul, Uthumporn Deesri, Komsorn Lauprasert, Romain Liard, Varavudh Suteethorn, Philippe Telouk, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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010506 paleontology, Range (biology), Population, chemistry.chemical_element, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Paleontology, stomatognathic system, 14. Life underwater, education, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Trophic level, Strontium, education.field_of_study, Ecology, Enamel paint, Cretaceous, Isotopes of strontium, Diagenesis, chemistry, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], visual_art, visual_art.visual_art_medium, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Geology
Abstract

Thalattosuchians are crocodylomorphs mainly known from marine strata of Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous age. They represent the earliest crocodylomorph radiation to an aquatic habitat and their evolutionary history offers very few records from freshwater settings. Here, we report several exquisitely preserved thalattosuchian skulls attributed to a derived teleosaurid from a pedogenic horizon located at the base of a fluvial series of alternating silts and sandstones of the Phu Kradung Formation (Upper Jurassic) of northeastern Thailand. Using laser ablation multicollector inductively coupled mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS) on tooth enamel and dentine, we measured isotopic ratios of strontium (87Sr/86Sr) to test the habitat of these teleosaurids. In addition, Sr concentrations of the dental tissues were estimated from the calibrated signal intensities of the Sr isotope measurements. The dataset includes bioapatite (teeth or scales) of eight terrestrial and five aquatic vertebrates. Theropods exhibit lower Sr concentrations both in enamel and dentine compared to others groups, a pattern in accordance with the calcium biopurification process, which predicts that Sr concentrations in the body of vertebrates decrease up the trophic chain. It also excludes the possibility that diagenesis has completely overprinted the Sr isotope compositions of the fossil assemblage, which exhibits a homogeneous87Sr/86Sr signature above the Late Jurassic seawater value. Values for teleosaurid teeth are in the range of other values for vertebrates in the continental assemblage and imply that these crocodylomorphs did not migrate between freshwater and marine habitats at least in the time constraint of the mineralizing tooth. This result represents the first demonstration that a population of teleosaurids was established for a prolonged time in a freshwater environment. Whether the ability of teleosaurids to inhabit freshwater habitats is a secondary adaptation or whether it is plesiomorphic and inherited from freshwater ancestors is discussed.

Published
2016

7. Revision of Isanodus paladeji (Elasmobranchii, Hybodontiformes) from the Lower Cretaceous of Thailand

Author

Gilles Cuny, Suchada Khamha, Komsorn Lauprasert, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 010506 paleontology, Hybodontiformes, Paleontology, Isanodus, Anatomy, Biology, biology.organism_classification, Thailand, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Cretaceous, Elasmobranchii, Genus, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Posterior teeth, Lower Cretaceous, 14. Life underwater, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract

Microremains from the Lower Cretaceous Phu Phan Thong locality, Nong Bua Lam Phu Province, northeastern Thailand, yielded ten tooth morphotypes of the freshwater shark genus Isanodus, which allow the revision of this genus. Two new morphotypes assigned to anterolateral and posterolateral teeth possess shared characters with anterior and posterior teeth of Isanodus paladeji whereas its former anterolateral and posterolateral teeth appear to belong to a new species, Isanodus nongbualamphuensis sp. nov. The pattern of ornamentation in some teeth of I. paladeji and I. nongbualamphuensis is quite similar to that observed in the genus Heteroptychodus, suggesting these two genera are closely related.

Published
2016

8. A large pholidosaurid in the Phu Kradung Formation of north-eastern Thailand

Author

Jeremy E. Martin, Eric Buffetaut, Komsorn Lauprasert, Romain Liard, Varavudh Suteethorn, Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 010506 paleontology, Goniopholididae, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Paleontology, Pholidosaurus, 10. No inequality, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Sunosuchus, biology, Elosuchus, Coelognathosuchia, Pholidosauridae, Phu Kradung Formation, biology.organism_classification, Thailand, Cretaceous, Terminonaris, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Sarcosuchus, crocodilia, Mesozoic
Abstract

In the early 1980s, the remains of a large crocodil- ian, consisting of a nearly complete lower jaw, were referred to a distinct species of Sunosuchus, S. thailandicus. The specimen was recovered from a road-cut near Nong Bua Lamphu, north-eastern Thailand, in the upper part of the continental Phu Kradung Formation, and then considered Early to Middle Jurassic in age. Since then, this age has been revised and most of the formation is now considered Early Cretaceous, although a Late Jurassic age is possible for its lowermost part. Here, we report for the first time cranial elements associated with man- dibular remains assignable to 'S'. thailandicus. An attribution to Pholidosauridae is proposed on the basis of premaxillary morphology, and the original referral of this taxon to the go- niopholidid Sunosuchus is discarded. A new genus name Chal- awan now designates the originally described material of S. thailandicus. Nevertheless, the newly described specimen shares a characteristic with both 'traditional' Goniopholididae and Pholidosauridae: the presence of a depression located on the lateral wall of the maxilla and jugal. A phylogenetic analy- sis confirms the inclusion of both Goniopholididae and Pho- lidosauridae into a common clade, Coelognathosuchia tax. nov. Although the new Thai skull is much fragmented, its original shape is reconstructed and is compared with other pholidosaurid genera, namely Elosuchus, Meridiosaurus, Oce- anosuchus, Pholidosaurus, Sarcosuchus and Terminonaris. The presence of the genus Sunosuchus being highly questionable in Thailand, it cannot be used as evidence to link the Chinese and Indochinese blocks. Instead, the recognition of a fresh- water pholidosaurid in a continental formation of the Indo- chinese block suggests that early in their evolutionary history, these crocodilians, already known from Europe, Africa and South America, were more widely distributed along the north- ern margin of the Tethys than previously recognized.

Published
2014

9. A new species of Cuora (Testudines: Geoemydidae) from the Miocene of Thailand and its evolutionary significance

Author

Julien Claude, Haiyan Tong, Komsorn Lauprasert, Wilailuck Naksri, Varavudh Suteethorn, Palaeontological Research and Education Centre, Mahasarakham University, Palaeontology Section, Bureau of Geological Survey, Department of Mineral Resources, Palaeontology Section, Bureau of Geological Survey, Department of Mineral Resources - Bangkok, Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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0106 biological sciences, 0303 health sciences, biology, Ecology, [SDV.BID.EVO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Populations and Evolution [q-bio.PE], Evolutionary significance, Geology, Late Miocene, biology.organism_classification, [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics, Phylogenetics and taxonomy, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Geoemydidae, Southeast asia, 03 medical and health sciences, Taxon, Limb bones, Genus, [SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoology, East Asia, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology
Abstract

A new species of Cuora, Cuora chiangmuanensis sp. nov., is described on the basis of a nearly complete shell with limb bones from the late Middle – early Late Miocene Chiang Muan Mine, Phayao Province (Northern Thailand). C. chiangmuanensis is distinguished from other fossil and living Cuora species mainly on the basis of its plastral morphology. Among fossil and extant Cuora taxa, the new species appears to be a missing link between the taxa from Southeast Asia and those from East Asia. It represents the earliest record of the genus and demonstrates that by 11–12 Ma, Asian box turtles were already present in Southeast Asia.

Published
2013

10. Gavialis from the Pleistocene of Thailand and Its Relevance for Drainage Connections from India to Java

Author

Komsorn Lauprasert, Wilailuck Naksri, Jeremy E. Martin, Eric Buffetaut, Julien Claude, School of Earth Sciences [Bristol], University of Bristol [Bristol], PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (UMR ISEM), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR226-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE)

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, 010506 paleontology, Early Pleistocene, Pleistocene, Landform History, Science, [SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio], Vertebrate Paleontology, Endangered species, Fluvial, India, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Genus, Animals, Paleoclimatology, Biology, Gavialis, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Alligators and Crocodiles, Multidisciplinary, biology, Ecology, Geography, Fossils, Geographical Hydrology, Paleontology, Biostratigraphy, Geomorphology, 15. Life on land, biology.organism_classification, Thailand, Biogeography, Physical Geography, Indonesia, Earth Sciences, Biological dispersal, Medicine, Mainland, Paleoecology, Paleobiology, [SDU.STU.PG]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Paleontology, Research Article
Abstract

BackgroundThe genus Gavialis comprises a single living but endangered species, G. gangeticus, as well as fossil species recorded in the Miocene to Pleistocene deposits of the Indian subcontinent. The genus is also represented in the Pleistocene deposits of Java by the species G. bengawanicus, which was recently recognized to be valid. Surprisingly, no detailed report of the genus exists between these two provinces and the recent evolutionary history of Gavialis is not understood.Methodology/principal findingsWe report new material consisting of skull and mandibular remains of Gavialis from the Early Pleistocene of Khok Sung, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, northeastern Thailand. The Gavialis material described herein is attributed to Gavialis cf. bengawanicus and sheds new light on the occurrence of the genus in mainland SE Asia.Conclusions/significanceComparison of this new material with other species referred to the genus Gavialis led us to preliminary restrict the content of the genus to three species, namely G. gangeticus Gmelin, G. bengawanicus Dubois and G. lewisi Lull. The occurrence of G. cf. bengawanicus in Thailand allows us to propose a scenario for the dispersal of Gavialis from Indo-Pakistan to Indonesia, thus bridging a geographical gap between these two provinces. Dispersal by sea appears a less likely possibility than dispersal through fluvial drainages.

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2012

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