Re: Caenagnathasia sp. (Oviraptorosauria) from Upper Cretaceous, Nei Mongol, China (free pdf)

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

The paper is now published in final form:

YAO Xi , WANG Xiao-Li, Corwin SULLIVAN, WANG Shuo, Thomas STIDHAM & XU
Xing (2015)
Caenagnathasia sp. (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Iren Dabasu
Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Erenhot, Nei Mongol, China.
Vertebrata PalAsiatica 53(4):291-298

http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201512/t20151204_4487710.html

Free pdf:
http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/xbwzxz/201512/P020151204540534399324.pdf

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ben Creisler
> bcreisler@gmail.com
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> A paper that's been online for some months but which I somehow missed.
> Better late than never...
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> YAO Xi , WANG Xiao-Li, Corwin SULLIVAN, WANG Shuo, Thomas STIDHAM & XU
> Xing (2015)
> Caenagnathasia sp. (Theropoda: Oviraptorosauria) from the Iren Dabasu
> Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Campanian) of Erenhot, Nei Mongol, China.
> Vertebrata PalAsiatica (advance online publication)
> http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/pressonline/201502/t20150213_4313557.html
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> Free pdf:
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> http://www.ivpp.cas.cn/cbw/gjzdwxb/pressonline/201502/P020150723465206425020.pdf
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> The oviraptorosaurian theropod Caenagnathasia was first described from
> the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) vertebrate assemblage from the Bissekty
> Formation of the Kyzylkum Desert, Uzbekistan. Here we report a partial
> pair of oviraptorosaurian fused lower jaws, comprising the symphysial
> region, from the Upper Cretaceous (Campanian) Iren Dabasu Formation of
> Nei Mongol, China. This mandibular fragment can be referred to
> Caenagnathasia based on the following shared characters: dentaries
> fully fused, symphysial portion of dentary not downturned, anterior
> part of dorsal margin of dentary broadly concave in lateral view,
> lingual ridge present at margin of occlusal surface on each dentary,
> lingual ridge bears apical projection, vascular grooves and associated
> foramina do not extend to dorsal surface of symphysis, and anterior
> occlusal groove present. This new specimen extends the temporal and
> geographic range of Caenagnathasia to the Campanian of China.