A new ankylosaurid (Dinosauria: Ankylosauria) from the Lower Cretaceous of China, with comments on ankylosaurian relationships

Amongst the fossil material collected by the Sino-Soviet Expeditions (1959–1960) to the Alshan Desert, China, was a large, virtually complete ankylosaur skeleton. Gobisaurus domoculus gen. et sp. nov. closely resembles Shamosaurus scutatus, but is distinct in having an unfused basipterygoid–pterygoi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inCanadian journal of earth sciences Vol. 38; no. 12; pp. 1767 - 1780
Main Authors Vickaryous, Matthew K, Russell, Anthony P, Currie, Philip J, Zhao, Xi-Jin
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Ottawa, Canada NRC Research Press 01.12.2001
Canadian Science Publishing NRC Research Press
Subjects
Cretaceous
Dinosaurs
Fossils
Paleontological sites
Paleontology
China
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:Amongst the fossil material collected by the Sino-Soviet Expeditions (1959–1960) to the Alshan Desert, China, was a large, virtually complete ankylosaur skeleton. Gobisaurus domoculus gen. et sp. nov. closely resembles Shamosaurus scutatus, but is distinct in having an unfused basipterygoid–pterygoid contact and elongate premaxillary processes of the vomers. Although it is difficult to make a definitive taxonomic assignment without considering postcranial material, a preliminary phylogenetic analysis places Gobisaurus as the sister taxon of Shamosaurus, clustered as one of several successive outgroups of the Ankylosaurinae.
Bibliography:ObjectType-Article-2
SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1
ObjectType-Feature-1
content type line 23
ISSN:0008-4077
1480-3313
DOI:10.1139/e01-051