A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade

被引：114

作者：

Royo-Torres, Rafael ^{[1
]}

Cobos, Alberto ^{[1
]}

Alcala, Luis ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Fdn Conjurito Paleontol Tereul Dinopolis, E-44002 Teruel, Spain

来源：

SCIENCE | 2006年 / 314卷 / 5807期

关键词：

Living systems studies;

D O I：

10.1126/science.1132885

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Fossils of a giant sauropod dinosaur, Turiasaurus riodevensis, have been recovered from terrestrial deposits of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation (Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary) of Riodeva (Teruel Province, Spain). Its humerus length ( 1790 millimeters) and estimated mass ( 40 to 48 metric tons) indicate that it may have been the most massive terrestrial animal in Europe and one of the largest in the world. Phylogenetic analysis indicates that the fossil represents a member of a hitherto unrecognized group of primitive European eusauropods that evolved in the Jurassic.

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页码：1925 / 1927

页数：3