New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography
Mannion, Philip D.1; Upchurch, Paul1; Jin, Xingsheng2,3; Zheng, Wenjie2,3
刊名ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
2019-08-01
卷号6期号:8页码:22
关键词Titanosauria Gondwana Mesozoic phylogeny Dinosauria Laurasia
ISSN号2054-5703
DOI10.1098/rsos.191057
英文摘要

Titanosaurs were a globally distributed clade of Cretaceous sauropods. Historically regarded as a primarily Gondwanan radiation, there is a growing number of Eurasian taxa, with several putative titanosaurs contemporaneous with, or even predating, the oldest known Southern Hemisphere remains. The early Late Cretaceous Jinhua Formation, in Zhejiang Province, China, has yielded two putative titanosaurs, Jiangshanosaurus lixianensis and Dongyangosaurus sinensis. Here, we provide a detailed re-description and diagnosis of Jiangshanosaurus, as well as new anatomical information on Dongyangosaurus. Previously, a 'derived' titanosaurian placement for Jiangshanosaurus was primarily based on the presence of procoelous anterior caudal cents. We show that this taxon had amphicoelous anterior-middle caudal centra. Its only titanosaurian synapomorphy is that the dorsal margins of the scapula and coracoid are approximately level with one another. Dongyangosaurus can clearly be differentiated from Jiangshanosaurus, and displays features that indicate a closer relationship to the titanosaur radiation. Revised scores for both taxa are incorporated into an expanded phylogenetic data matrix, comprising 124 taxa scored for 548 characters. Under equal weights parsimony, Jiangshanosaurus is recovered as a member of the non-titanosaurian East Asian somphospondylan lade Euhelopodidae, and Dongyangosaurus lies just outside of Titanosauria. However, when extended implied weighting is applied, both taxa arc placed within Titanosauria. Most other 'middle Cretaceous East Asian sauropods are probably non-titanosaurian Somphospondylans, but at least Xianshanosaurus appears to belong to the titanosaur radiation. Our analyses also recover the Early Cretaceous European sauropod Normanniasaurus genceyi as a 'derived' titanosaur, clustering with Gondwanan taxa. These results provide further support for a widespread diversification of titanosaurs by at least the Early Cretaceous.

资助项目Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship[ECF-2014-662] ; Royal Society University Research Fellowship[UF160216] ; National Geographic Waitt Grant[W421-16] ; Chinese Natural Science Foundation[41602019] ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS)[163120]
WOS关键词NORTH-AMERICA ; TAXONOMIC SUCCESSION ; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY ; SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE ; BASAL TITANOSAUR ; DIVERSITY ; REDESCRIPTION ; REASSESSMENT ; SKELETON ; BASIN
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics
语种英语
出版者ROYAL SOC
WOS记录号WOS:000500234500010
资助机构Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship ; Royal Society University Research Fellowship ; National Geographic Waitt Grant ; Chinese Natural Science Foundation ; State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS)
内容类型期刊论文
源URL[http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/29411]  
专题中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
通讯作者Mannion, Philip D.
作者单位1.UCL, Dept Earth Sci, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT, England
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Jiangsu, Peoples R China
3.Zhejiang Museum Nat Hist, Hangzhou 310014, Zhejiang, Peoples R China
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Mannion, Philip D.,Upchurch, Paul,Jin, Xingsheng,et al. New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography[J]. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE,2019,6(8):22.
APA Mannion, Philip D.,Upchurch, Paul,Jin, Xingsheng,&Zheng, Wenjie.(2019).New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography.ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE,6(8),22.
MLA Mannion, Philip D.,et al."New information on the Cretaceous sauropod dinosaurs of Zhejiang Province, China: impact on Laurasian titanosauriform phylogeny and biogeography".ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 6.8(2019):22.
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