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Provedor de dados: | 42
País: | Brazil
Título: | A new Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystem from Gondwana with the description of a new sauropod dinosaur
Autores: | Calvo,Jorge O.; Porfiri,Juan D.; González-Riga,Bernardo J.; Kellner,Alexander W.A.
Data: | 2007-09-01
Ano: | 2007
Palavras-chave: | Dinosauria; Titanosauria; Ecosystem; Taphonomy; Upper Cretaceous; Gondwana; Patagonia; Argentina.
Resumo: | A unique site at the northern area of Patagonia (Neuquén, Argentina) reveals a terrestrial ecosystem preserved in a detail never reported before in a Late Cretaceous deposit. An extraordinary diversity and abundance of fossils was found concentrated in a 0.5 m horizon in the same quarry, including a new titanosaur sauropod, Futalognkosaurus dukei n.gen., n.sp, which is the most complete giant dinosaur known so far. Several plant leaves, showing a predominance of angiosperms over gymnosperms that likely constituted the diet of F. dukei were found too. Other dinosaurs (sauropods, theropods, ornithopods), crocodylomorphs, pterosaurs, and fishes were also discovered, allowing a partial reconstruction of this Gondwanan continental ecosystem.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652007000300013
Editor: | Academia Brasileira de Ciências
Relação: | 10.1590/S0001-37652007000300013
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências  v.79 n.3 2007
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess