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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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