New Papers

["Jerry D. Harris" <jharris@dixie.edu>]

Sánchez-Hernández, B. 2005. Galveosaurus herreroi, a new sauropod dinosaur 
from Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain. Zootaxa 
1034:1-20.

ABSTRACT: The Galve fossil sites (province of Teruel, Spain) have provided 
many Mesozoic vertebrate remains. Among these are isolated sauropod dinosaur 
bones, including one taxon reported only from this locality, Aragosaurus 
ischiaticus. Here, a new species is named from the Tithonian deposits of the 
Villar del Arzobispo Formation, of Galve (Teruel province, Spain), 
Galveosaurus herreroi gen. et sp. nov. It is represented by two humeri, one 
sternal plate, one ischium, one scapula, one cervical vertebra, one caudal 
dorsal vertebra, five caudal vertebrae, one Y-shaped chevron and some 
fragments of ribs. This new species is an eusauropod dinosaur that shows 
primitive features such as a slightly curved ischium with an unexpanded 
distal end, amphicoelous vertebrae, neural spine not bifid and an unforked 
chevron. It appears to be closer to cetiosaurid genera such as Barapasaurus 
or Cetiosaurus. This new basal sauropod lived at the same time as the 
eusauropod Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis from Portugal. These are both relict 
genera that survived in the Iberian Peninsula when more derived 
neosauropods, such as Losillasaurus or Dinheirosaurus, had taken over other 
parts of Iberia.



Olson, S. L., and H. Matsuoka. 2005. New specimens of the early Eocene 
frigatebird Limnofregata (Pelecaniformes: Fregatidae), with the description 
of a new species. Zootaxa 1046:1-15.

ABSTRACT: Four additional specimens from the Green River Formation of 
Wyoming are referred to the Eocene frigatebird Limnofregata azygosternon 
Olson, originally described from a nearly complete skeleton and two partial 
paratypes. Two skulls with mandibles and a partial postcranial skeleton are 
described as a new species, Limnofregata hasegawai, characterized by much 
larger size and a proportionately longer bill. One of the referred specimens 
of L. azygosternon is from Eocene Lake Gosiute, whereas all of the other 
specimens of Limnofregata are from Fossil Lake. The species of Limnofregata 
would have taken advantage of frequent periodic dieoffs of fish in the Green 
River lakes. Geological and climatic factors that may have influenced the 
paleoecology, distribution, and size variation in frigatebirds in the 
Cenozoic are reviewed.


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