Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-8ctnn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T15:49:15.005Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

An Early Cretaceous spinosaurid theropod from southern China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 August 2008

ERIC BUFFETAUT ,
VARAVUDH SUTEETHORN ,
HAIYAN TONG  and
ROMAIN AMIOT
ERIC BUFFETAUT*
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 8538), Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
VARAVUDH SUTEETHORN
Affiliation:
Bureau of Fossil Research and Museum, Department of Mineral Resources, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
HAIYAN TONG
Affiliation:
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (UMR 8538), Laboratoire de Géologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France
ROMAIN AMIOT
Affiliation:
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 XiZhiMenWai DaJie, Beijing 100044, China
*
†Author for correspondence: [email protected]
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Teeth from the Early Cretaceous Napai Formation of Fusui County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (South China), initially described as the sauropterygian Sinopliosaurus fusuiensis, are redescribed as belonging to a spinosaurid theropod closely allied to Siamosaurus suteethorni, from the Early Cretaceous of Thailand. This identification extends to China the geographical range of Asian spinosaurs, previously reported from Thailand and Japan.

Keywords

Cretaceous China Plesiosauria Dinosauria Theropoda Spinosauridae
Type
Rapid Communication
Information
Geological Magazine , Volume 145 , Issue 5 , September 2008 , pp. 745 - 748
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2008

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Andrews, C. W. 1913. A descriptive catalogue of the marine reptiles of the Oxford Clay, Part II. London: British Museum (Natural History), 206 pp.Google Scholar
Bigot, A. 1938. Sauroptérygiens du Jurassique du Calvados. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 8, 631–37.Google Scholar
Buffetaut, E. 2007. The spinosaurid dinosaur Baryonyx (Saurischia, Theropoda) in the Early Cretaceous of Portugal. Geological Magazine 144, 1021–5.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buffetaut, E. & Ingavat, R. 1986. Unusual theropod dinosaur teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Phu Wiang, northeastern Thailand. Revue de Paléobiologie 5, 217–20.Google Scholar
Buffetaut, E. & Ouaja, M. 2002. A new specimen of Spinosaurus (Dinosauria, Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Tunisia, with remarks on the evolutionary history of the Spinosauridae. Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 173, 415–21.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V., Le Loeuff, J., Khansubha, S., Tong, H. & Wongko, K. 2005. The dinosaur fauna from the Khok Kruat Formation (Early Cretaceous) of Thailand. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Geology, Geotechnology and Mineral Resources of Indochina (eds Wannakao, L., Youngme, W., Srisuk, K. & Lertsirivorakul, R.), pp. 575–81. Khon Kaen: Khon Kaen University.Google Scholar
Buffetaut, E., Suteethorn, V. & Tong, H. 2006. Dinosaur assemblages from Thailand: a comparison with Chinese faunas. In Papers from the 2005 Heyuan International Dinosaur Symposium (eds Lü, J., Kobayashi, Y., Huang, D. & Lee, Y. N.), pp. 19–37. Beijing: Geological Publishing House.Google Scholar
Charig, A. J. & Milner, A. C. 1997. Baryonyx walkeri, a fish eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series 53, 11–70.Google Scholar
Dong, Z. 1979a. Cretaceous dinosaurs of Huanan (South China). In Mesozoic–Cenozoic Red Beds of Huanan (eds Cheng, J. & Qu, Z.), pp. 342–50. Beijing: Science Press [in Chinese].Google Scholar
Dong, Z. 1979b. Reptiles. In Handbook of Chinese Vertebrate Fossils (eds Dong, Z., Qi, T. & You, Y.), pp. 88–244. Beijing: Science Press.Google Scholar
Dong, Z. 1992. Dinosaurian Faunas of China. Beijing & Berlin: China Ocean Press & Springer-Verlag, 188 pp.Google Scholar
Hasegawa, Y., Buffetaut, E., Manabe, M. & Takakuwa, Y. A possible spinosaurid tooth from the Sebayashi Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Gunma, Japan. Bulletin of the Gunma Museum of Natural History 7, 1–5.Google Scholar
Hou, L., Yeh, H. & Zhao, X. 1975. Fossil reptiles from Fusui, Kwangshi. Vertebrata Palasiatica 13, 23–33.Google Scholar
Kobayashi, T., Takai, F. & Hayami, I. 1964. On some Mesozoic fossils from the Khorat Series of East Thailand and a note on the Khorat Series. Japanese Journal of Geology and Geography 34, 181–92.Google Scholar
Milner, A. C., Buffetaut, E. & Suteethorn, V. 2007. A tall-spined spinosaurid theropod from Thailand and the biogeography of spinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 27, abstract issue, supplement to number 3, 118A.Google Scholar
Nessov, L. A. 1995. Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology and palaeobiogeography. Saint Petersburg: University of Saint Petersburg Institute of Earth Crust, 156 pp. [in Russian].Google Scholar
Nessov, L. A. 1997. Cretaceous nonmarine vertebrates of northern Eurasia. Saint Petersburg: University of Saint Petersburg Institute of Earth Crust, 218 pp. [in Russian].Google Scholar
Owen, R. 1851. Monograph on the fossil Reptilia of the Cretaceous formations. Part I. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 1851, 1–118.Google Scholar
Sato, T., Li, C. & Wu, X. 2003. Restudy of Bishanopliosaurus youngi Dong 1980, a freshwater plesiosaurian from the Jurassic of Chonqqing. Vertebrata Palasiatica 41, 17–33.Google Scholar
Schlüter, T. & Schwarzhans, W. 1978. Eine Bonebed-Lagerstätte aus dem Wealden Süd-Tunesiens (Umgebung Ksar Krerachfa). Berliner geowissenchaftliche Abhandlungen A 8, 53–65.Google Scholar
Stromer, E. 1915. Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens. II. Wirbeltierreste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman). 3. Das Original des Theropoden Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Abhandlungen der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse 28, 1–32.Google Scholar
Sun, A., Li, J., Ye, X., Dong, Z. & Hou, L. 1992. The Chinese fossil reptiles and their kins. Beijing & New York: Science Press, 260 pp.Google Scholar
Tarlo, L. B. 1960. A review of the Upper Jurassic pliosaurs. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Geology 4, 145–89.Google Scholar
Ward, D. E. & Bunnag, D. 1964. Stratigraphy of the Mesozoic Khorat Group in northeastern Thailand. Department of Mineral Resources Report of Investigation 6, 1–95.Google Scholar
Young, C. C. 1935. On the reptilian remains of the Tzuliuching Formation (Tzekwei Series) near Chungking, Szechuan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 15, 67–72.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, C. C. 1942. Fossil vertebrates from Kuangyuan, N. Szechuan. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 22, 293–308.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, C. C. 1944. On the reptilian remains from Weiyuan, Szechuan, China. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 24, 187–210.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, C. C. 1948. Fossil crocodiles in China, with notes on dinosaurian remains associated with the Kansu crocodiles. Bulletin of the Geological Society of China 28, 235–88.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Young, C. C. 1973. Plesiosaur remains discovered in Dsungar Basin, Sinkiang. Memoirs of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology 11, 13–17.Google Scholar