A Basal Mosasauroid from the Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) of Hokkaido, Northern Japan
Autor: | Tomohiro Nishimura, Tamaki Sato, Takuya Konishi, Takeru Yoshimura |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Inoceramus 010506 paleontology food.ingredient Platyceramus biology Holotype Paleontology Pannoniasaurus biology.organism_classification 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Cretaceous Halisaurinae food Sensu Phosphorosaurus Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
Zdroj: | Paleontological Research. 22:156-166 |
ISSN: | 1880-0068 1342-8144 |
Popis: | A basal mosasauroid specimen, including a rib and a vertebra from the middle to posterior portion of the trunk, is reported from the lower Campanian Inoceramus (Platyceramus) japonicus Zone in Obira Town, northern Hokkaido, northern Japan. It is the second occurrence of basal mosasauroids sensu lato in Japan after the halisaurine Phosphorosaurus ponpetelegans, but represents a larger individual than the P. ponpetelegans holotype. The Obira specimen predates the early Maastrichtian P. ponpetelegans by about 10 million years, indicating colonization by basal mosasauroids of the northwestern Pacific by at latest the early Campanian age. While the overall morphology of the Obira specimen agrees well with that of a halisaurine vertebra, the presence of well developed zygantra (zygosphenes missing postmortem if present), the inclined condyle, and a distinct precondylar constriction uniquely align the specimen with Pannoniasaurus inexpectatus, a Santonian-aged basal mosasauroid from freshwater deposits... |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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