A new titanosaurian sauropod, <i>Gandititan cavocaudatus</i> gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China

doi:10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038

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	*A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus* gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China**
	Han, Fenglu1,2 ; Yang, Ling 1; Lou, Fasheng 3; Sullivan, Corwin 4,5; Xu, Xing6,7 ; Qiu, Wenjiang 3; Liu, Hanfeng 8; Yu, Juan 1; Wu, Rui 2; Ke, Yuzheng 2; Xu, Mengyuan 9; Hu, Jinfeng 2; Lu, Pikun 10
	2024-12-31
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY
ISSN	1477-2019
卷号	22 期号:1 页码:22
通讯作者	Han, Fenglu(hanfl@cug.edu.cn)
摘要	Large quadrupedal sauropod dinosaurs of the group Titanosauria were globally distributed in the Late Cretaceous. Many titanosaurian species have been discovered in eastern Asia, but most of them are controversial and represented by poorly preserved remains. Here, we describe a new titanosaur, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., based on a partial skeleton recovered from the lower Upper Cretaceous of Ganxian County, Ganzhou City, southern China, and comprising six articulated cervical vertebrae, two partial dorsal vertebrae, and a complete sacrum preserved in articulation with the first 17 caudal vertebrae and part of the right pelvis. Gandititan can be diagnosed on the basis of the following autapomorphies: long and narrow fossae present on the dorsal and ventral parts of the lateral surfaces of the cervical centra, sacral neural spines forming a dorsal platform with wave-shaped lateral margins, anteriormost six caudal vertebrae with bifurcated neural spines, the presence of prominent triangular flanges on the transverse processes of the anteriormost caudal vertebrae, a pair of slit-like foramina present on the ventral surface of each anterior caudal centrum, lateral surfaces of neural arches strongly excavated, additional spinoprezygapophyseal laminae present, and a prominent lamina extending horizontally between the bases of the pre- and postzygapophyses in some anterior caudal vertebrae. An expanded phylogenetic analysis places Gandititan as the sister taxon to Abdarainurus, within a clade of non-lithostrotian titanosaurs that also includes the Chinese titanosaurs Dongyangosaurus, Baotianmansaurus and Huabeisaurus, as well as the Argentine titanosaur Andesaurus. Such results imply the possible existence of a previously unrecognized group of titanosaurs in eastern Asia, and potential dispersal of titanosaurs between Asia and South America during the mid-Cretaceous.
关键词	Titanosauria Sauropoda Upper Cretaceous southern China
DOI	10.1080/14772019.2023.2293038
关键词[WOS]	DINOSAURIA SAUROPODA ; LIAONING PROVINCE ; JIANGXI PROVINCE ; EARLY EVOLUTION ; GANZHOU ; REDESCRIPTION ; BASIN
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[42288201] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41972021] ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada[RGPIN-2017-06246] ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada[RGPIN-2023-04916]
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
WOS研究方向	Evolutionary Biology ; Paleontology
WOS类目	Evolutionary Biology ; Paleontology
WOS记录号	WOS:001144320600001
出版者	TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23250
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Han, Fenglu
作者单位	1.Jiangxi Geol Museum, Nanchang, Peoples R China 2.China Univ Geosci, Sch Earth Sci, Lumo Rd, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China 3.Jiangxi Geol Survey & Explorat Inst, Nanchang, Peoples R China 4.Univ Alberta, Dept Biol Sci, Edmonton, AB, Canada 5.Philip J Currie Dinosaur Museum, Wembley, AB, Canada 6.Yunnan Univ, Ctr Vertebrate Evolutionary Biol, Kunming, Peoples R China 7.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing, Peoples R China 8.Jiangxi Coll Appl Technol, Ganzhou, Peoples R China 9.East China Univ Technol, Sch Earth Sci, Nanchang, Peoples R China 10.Shenhao Geol Explorat Co, Ganzhou, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Han, Fenglu,Yang, Ling,Lou, Fasheng,et al. A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China[J]. JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY,2024,22(1):22.
APA	Han, Fenglu.,Yang, Ling.,Lou, Fasheng.,Sullivan, Corwin.,Xu, Xing.,...&Lu, Pikun.(2024).A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China.JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY,22(1),22.
MLA	Han, Fenglu,et al."A new titanosaurian sauropod, Gandititan cavocaudatus gen. et sp. nov., from the Late Cretaceous of southern China".JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC PALAEONTOLOGY 22.1(2024):22.