[dinosaur] Possible stegosaurian prootic from Upper Jurassic of Junggar Basin, China

Subject: [dinosaur] Possible stegosaurian prootic from Upper Jurassic of Junggar Basin, China

From: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 21:34:32 -0800

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A new paper:

Michael W. Maisch & Andreas T. Matzke (2019)
An isolated dinosaurian prootic with possible stegosaurian affinities (Dinosauria: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic Qigu Formation of the southern Junggar Basin, NW-China.
Neues Jahrbuch fÃr Geologie und PalÃontologie - Abhandlungen 294(3): 275-283
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1127/njgpa/2019/0859
https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/schweiz/njbgeol/2019/00000294/00000003/art00003

An isolated right prootic of a dinosaur is described from the lower Qigu Formation (Upper Jurassic) of Liuhuanggou, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China. It is phenetically closest to the prootics of well-known stegosaurids, such as Stegosaurus and Kentrosaurus. Based on this resemblance as well as the co-occurrence of diagnostic stegosaurian material in the same assemblage, the element may represent a stegosaur. If correctly identified, it would be the third stegosaurian record from the southern Junggar Basin.

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