First ceratopsid dinosaur from China and its biogeographical implications |
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| Authors: | Xing Xu KeBai Wang XiJin Zhao DunJing Li |
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| Institution: | 1 Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
2 Bureau of Tourism, Zhucheng, Zhucheng 262200, China |
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| Abstract: | Ceratopsid dinosaurs represent one of the best known dinosaur groups in the Late Cretaceous, and their unquestionable fossil re-cords are exclusively restricted to western North America.Here we report a new ceratopsid dinosaur, Sinoceratops zhuchengensis gen.et sp.nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Wangshi Group of Zhucheng, Shandong Province, China.Cladistic analysis places this new taxon as the only known ceratopsid from outside North America, in a basal position within the Centrosaurinae.It is con-siderably... |
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| Keywords: | Late Cretaceous Wangshi Group Ceratopsidae Centrosaurinae biogeography |
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