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The skull and appendicular skeleton of , a saurolophine hadrosaurid (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the early Campanian (Cretaceous) of Montana, USA.
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Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences . Mar2012, Vol. 49 Issue 3, p510-532. 23p. 13 Black and White Photographs, 1 Diagram. - Publication Year :
- 2012
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Abstract
- The osteology of the holotype and referred specimens of the saurolophine hadrosaurid, , from the lower Two Medicine Formation of Montana (USA), is described in detail. With an estimated early Campanian (Late Cretaceous) age, this dinosaur is one of the oldest known hadrosaurids. shows several autapomorphies, including dentary tooth crowns, with an apicobasal length/mesiodistal width ratio of 1.7-2.2, a single median carina, and large marginal denticles in sections of the dental battery; deep and oval depression on the posteroventral premaxillary surface; and, in the context of Hadrosauridae, a shallow lacrimal process of the rostral process of the jugal. Furthermore, differs from and in having a broadly arcuate anterolateral oral margin of the premaxilla, a posterior margin of the narial fenestra that is wider than the dorsoventral depth of the proximal region of the narial bar, with a nasal crest that rises above the level of the frontals (in adults) and is located above the posterior margin of the narial fenestra, and wide and shallow posteroventral margin of the rostral process of the jugal, among other characters. This study confirmed a previous hypothesis supporting as the sister taxon to a clade composed of the other species of . [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *APPENDICULARIA
*SKELETON
*DINOSAURS
*CRETACEOUS Period
*GEOLOGICAL formations
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00084077
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 71960065
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1139/e11-069