Primeiro registro de ossos pós-cranianos de Titanosauria (Sauropoda) no município de Alfredo Marcondes (estado de São Paulo), formação adamantina (Turoniano-Santoniano), Bacia Bauru
Author(s) -
Rodrigo Pinto Fernandes de Azevedo,
Carlos Roberto A. Candeiro,
Lílian Paglarelli Bergqvist
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
anuário do instituto de geociências
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1982-3908
pISSN - 0101-9759
DOI - 10.11137/2007_1_116-122
Subject(s) - sauropoda , anatomy , femur , cretaceous , crest , lesser trochanter , tibia , geology , medicine , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics
Sauropod dinosaurs (Titanosauria) remains were collected in Upper Cretaceous sandstones, at Alfredo Marcondes site, Adamantina Formation, São Paulo state. These fossils comprise a fragmentary right femur and a proximal portion of a right tibia. The femur was assigned to the family Titanosauridae on the basis of the following features: straight shape, somewhat anteroposteriorly flattened; fourth trochanter slightly medially pronounced right above of the middle part of the bone's lenght; a proximolateral proeminence of the greater trochanter and a medial deflection of the proximal end of the femur. The tibia described here shares similar features with Titanosauria taxa like a well developed cnemial crest only slightly curved laterally; a deep longitudinal concavity separating the crest from the tibial shaft and a very anteroposteriorly expanded proximal end. These are the first fossil bones of dinosaurs recovered from Alfredo Marcondes municipality.
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