Title of article :
Re-evaluation of Australodocus bohetii, a putative diplodocoid sauropod from the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, with comment on Late Jurassic sauropod faunal diversity and palaeoecology
Author/Authors :
Whitlock، نويسنده , , John A.، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
Pages :
9
From page :
333
To page :
341
Abstract :
The Late Jurassic sauropod Australodocus bohetii was originally assigned to Diplodocidae, primarily on the basis of bifurcate neural spines. The holotype and paratype materials of A. bohetii are re-examined and found to have closer affinities with Brachiosaurus and relatives than with any diplodocoid. The presence of a second titanosauriform sauropod in the Tanzanian fauna is important for understanding the palaeoecology of the region. Comparisons between Tendaguru and three other contemporaneous sauropod faunas (Morrison Formation, USA; Lourinhم and Alcobaça formations, Portugal; Caٌadَn Calcلreo, Argentina) are also made. The revised Tendaguru fauna, with its high diversity of high-browsing Macronarians, now more closely matches the conifer-forest dominated landscape inferred from palaeobotanical evidence. The Morrison Formation, dominated by low-browse, is once again the only formation containing multiple diplodocids.
Keywords :
Tendaguru , Palaeoecology , Late Jurassic , Diplodocidae , Titanosauriformes
Journal title :
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Serial Year :
2011
Journal title :
Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
Record number :
2295249
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