Skull anatomy of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Patagonia

References

• Allain , R , Aquesbi , N , Dejax , J , Meyer , C , Monbaron , M , Montenat , C , Richir , P , Rochdy , M , Russell , D and Taquet , P . 2004 . A basal sauropod dinosaur from the Early Jurassic of Morocco . C R Palevol , 3 : 199 – 208 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Baez , AM and Marsicano , CA . 2001 . A heterodontosaurid ornithischian dinosaur from the Upper Triassic of Patagonia . Ameghiniana , 38 : 271 – 279 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barrett , PM , Upchurch , P and Wang , X-L . 2005 . Cranial osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (Dinosauria: Prosauropoda) from the Lower Jurassic of Yunnan, People's Republic of China . J Vert Paleontol , 25 : 806 – 822 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Benton , MJ , Juul , L , Storrs , GW and Galton , PM . 2000 . Anatomy and systematics of the prosauropod dinosaur Thecodontosaurus antiquus from the Upper Triassic of southwest England . J Vert Paleontol , 20 : 71 – 102 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bonaparte , JF . 1971 . Los tetrápodos del sector superior de la Formación Los Colorados, La Rioja, Argentina (Triássico superior) . Opera Lilloana , 22 : 1 – 183 .
   Google Scholar
• Bonaparte , JF . 1978 . Coloradia brevis n.g. et n. sp. (Saurischia Prosauropoda), dinosaurio Plateosauridae de la Formación Los Colorados, Triásico superior de La Rioja, Argentina . Ameghiniana , 15 : 327 – 332 .
   Google Scholar
• Bonaparte , JF . 1999 . Evolución de las vértebras presacras en Sauropodomorpha . Ameghiniana , 36 : 115 – 187 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bonaparte , JF and Pumares , JA . 1995 . Notas sobre el primer cráneo de Riojasaurus incertus (Dinosauria, Prosauropoda, Melanorosauridae) del Triásico Superior de La Rioja, Argentina . Ameghiniana , 32 : 341 – 349 .
   Google Scholar
• Bonaparte , JF and Vince , M . 1979 . El hallazgo del primer nido de Dinosaurios Triásicos (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Triásico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina . Ameghiniana , 16 : 173 – 182 .
   Google Scholar
• Britt , BB and Naylor , BG . 1994 . “ An embryonic Camarasaurus (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation (Dry Mesa Quarry, Colorado) ” . In Dinosaur eggs and babies , Edited by: Carpenter , K , Hirsch , KF and Horner , JR . 256 – 264 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Carpenter , K . 1994 . “ Baby Dryosaurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison formation of Dinosaur National Monument ” . In Dinosaur eggs and babies , Edited by: Carpenter , K , Hirsch , KF and Horner , JR . 288 – 297 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Casamiquela , RM . 1980 . La presencia del genero Plateosaurus (Prosauropoda) en el Triásico superior de la Formación El Tranquilo, Patagonia . Actas II Congr Arg Paleontol Bioestrat I Congr Latinoam Paleontol , 1 : 143 – 158 .
   Google Scholar
• Chatterjee , S and Zheng , Z . 2002 . Cranial anatomy of Shunosaurus, a basal sauropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of China . Zool J Linn Soc , 136 : 145 – 169 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Chebli , G , Gebhard , J and Menzel , M . 1976 . Estratigrafía y magmatismo en la zona de la Estancia La Juanita y alrededores (Departamento Deseado, provincia de Santa Cruz) . Actas VI Congreso Geológico Argentino , 1 : 357 – 373 .
   Google Scholar
• Chiappe , LM , Salgado , L and Coria , RA . 2001 . Embryonic skulls of titanosaur sauropod dinosaurs . Science , 293 : 2444 – 2446 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dodson , P . 1975 . Functional and ecological significance of relative growth in Alligator . J Zool Lond , 175 : 315 – 355 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fedak , T . 2005 . Two heads are better than one: considering Anchisaurus as a small sauropod . J Vert Paleontol , 25 ( Suppl. to 3 ) : 56A
   Google Scholar
• Fedak , T . “ New information on the braincase and skull of Ammosaurus major (Lower Jurassic, Portland Formation; Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) and implications for sauropodomorph systematics ” . In Evolution and palaeobiology of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs Edited by: Barrett , PM and Batten , DJ . in press
   Google Scholar
• Galton , PM . 1976 . Prosauropod dinosaurs (Reptilia: Saurischia) of North America . Postilla , 169 : 1 – 98 .
   Google Scholar
• Galton , PM . 1984 . Cranial anatomy of the prosauropod dinosaur Plateosaurus from the Knollenmergel (Middle Keuper, Upper Triassic) of Germany. I. Two complete skulls from Trossingen/Württ. with comments on the diet . Geol Palaeontol , 18 : 139 – 171 .
   Google Scholar
• Galton , PM . 1990 . “ Basal Sauropodomorpha—Prosauropoda ” . In The Dinosauria , Edited by: Weishampel , DB , Dodson , P and Osmólska , H . 320 – 344 . Berkeley : University of California Press .
   Google Scholar
• Galton , PM and Upchurch , P . 2004 . “ Prosauropoda ” . In The Dinosauria 2^nd edition , Edited by: Weishampel , DB , Dodson , P and Osmólska , H . 232 – 258 . Berkeley : University of California Press .
   Google Scholar
• Gauthier JA. Saurischian monophyly and the origin of birds. In: Padian K, editor. The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight 1986. Mem Calif Acad Sci 8. p 1–55.
   Google Scholar
• Gnaedinger , S and Herbst , R . 1998a . La flora triásica del Grupo El Tranquilo, provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia). Parte IV. Pteridospermae . Ameghiniana , 35 : 33 – 52 .
   Google Scholar
• Gnaedinger , S and Herbst , R . 1998b . La flora triásica del Grupo El Tranquilo, provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia). Parte V. Pteridophylla . Ameghiniana , 35 : 53 – 65 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gnaedinger , S and Herbst , R . 1999 . La flora triásica del Grupo El Tranquilo, provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia). Parte VI. Ginkgoales . Ameghiniana , 36 : 275 – 296 .
   Google Scholar
• Gow , CE , Kitching , JW and Raath , MA . 1990 . Skulls of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen in the collections of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research . Palaeontol Afr , 27 : 45 – 58 .
   Google Scholar
• Herbst , R . 1965 . La flora fósil de la Formación Roca Blanca, provincia Santa Cruz, Patagonia, con consideraciones geológicas y estratigráficas . Opera Lilloana , 12 : 1 – 101 .
   Google Scholar
• Horner , JR and Currie , PJ . 1994 . “ Embryonic and neonatal morphology and ontogeny of a new species of Hypacrosaurus (Ornithischia, Lambeosauridae) from Montana and Alberta ” . In Dinosaur eggs and babies , Edited by: Carpenter , K , Hirsch , KF and Horner , JR . 312 – 337 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• von Huene , F . 1932 . Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte . Monogr Geol Paläeontol (ser 1) , 4 : 1 – 361 .
   Google Scholar
• Jalfin , GA and Herbst , R . 1995 . La flora triásica del grupo El Tranquilo, Provincia de Santa Cruz (Patagonia). Estratigrafía . Ameghiniana , 32 : 211 – 229 .
   Google Scholar
• Langer , MC . 2003 . The pelvic and hind limb anatomy of the stem-sauropodomorph Saturnalia tupiniquim (Late Triassic, Brazil) . Paleobios , 23 : 1 – 40 .
   Google Scholar
• Langer , MC . 2005 . Studies on continental Late Triassic tetrapod biochronology. I. The type locality of Saturnalia tupiniquim and the faunal succession in south Brazil . J South Am Earth Sci , 19 : 205 – 218 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Langer , MC , Abdala , F , Richter , M and Benton , MJ . 1999 . A sauropodomorph dinosaur from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) of southern Brazil . C R Acad Sci Paris, Sci Terre Planetes , 329 : 511 – 517 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Leal , LA , Azevedo , SAK , Kellner , AWA and Da Rosa , AAS . 2004 . A new early dinosaur (Sauropodomorpha) from the Caturrita Formation, Paraná Basin, Brazil . Zootaxa , 690 : 1 – 24 .
   Google Scholar
• Long , JA and McNamara , KJ . 1995 . “ Heterochrony in dinosaur evolution ” . In Evolutionary change and heterochrony , Edited by: McNamara , KJ . 151 – 168 . New York : John Wiley and Sons .
   Google Scholar
• Long , JA and McNamara , KJ . 1997 . “ Heterochrony ” . In Encyclopedia of dinosaurs , Edited by: Currie , PJ and Padian , K . 311 – 317 . P.San Diego : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• McKinney , ML and McNamara , KJ . 1991 . Heterochrony: The evolution of ontogeny , New York : Plenum Press .
   Google Scholar
• Norell , MA , Clark , JM , Dashzeveg , D , Barsbold , R , Chiappe , LM , Davidson , AR , McKenna , MC , Perle , A and Novacek , MJ . 1994 . A theropod dinosaur embryo and the affinities of the Flaming Cliff dinosaur eggs . Science , 266 : 779 – 782 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pankhurst , RJ , Rapela , CW and Marquez , M . 1993 . Geocronología y pretrogénesis de los granitoids jurásicos del noreste del Macizo del Deseado . XII Congreso Geológico Argentino y II Congreso de Exploración de Hidrocarburos, Actas , 4 : 134 – 141 .
   Google Scholar
• Rapela , CW and Pankhurst , RJ . 1996 . Monzonite suites: the innermost Cordilleran plutonism of Patagonia . Trans Roy Soc Edinburgh Earth Sci , 87 : 193 – 203 .
   Google Scholar
• Rauhut , OWM and Fechner , R . 2005 . Early development of the facial region in a non-avian theropod dinosaur . Proc Roy Soc B , 272 : 1179 – 1183 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Reisz , RR , Scott , D , Sues , H-D , Evans , DC and Raath , MJ . 2005 . Embryos of an early Jurassic Prosauropod dinosaur and their evolutionary significance . Science , 309 : 761 – 763 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Riley , H and Stutchbury , S . 1836 . A description of various fossil remains of three distinct saurian animals discovered in the autumn of 1834, in the Magnesian Conglomerate on Durdham Down, near Bristol . Proc Geol Soc Lond , 2 : 397 – 399 .
   Google Scholar
• Salgado , L , Coria , RA and Chiappe , LM . 2005 . Osteology of the sauropod embryos from the Upper Cretaceous of Patagonia . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica , 50 : 79 – 92 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seeley , HG . 1887 . On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria . Proc R Soc Lond , 43 : 165 – 171 .
   Google Scholar
• Sereno , PC . 1999 . The evolution of dinosaurs . Science , 284 : 2137 – 2147 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Shubin , NH . 1994 . “ History, Ontogeny, and Evolution of the Archetype ” . In Homology , Edited by: Hall , BK . 249 – 271 . San Diego : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Stipanicic , PN and Marsicano , CA . 2002 . Léxico Estratigráfico de la Argentina. Volumen VIII. Triásico . Asociación Geológica Argentina, Serie B , 26 : 1 – 370 .
   Google Scholar
• Sues , H-D , Reisz , RR , Hinic , S and Raath , MA . 2004 . On the skull of Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 (Dinosauria:Sauropodomorpha) from the Elliot and Clarens formations (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa . Ann Carnegie Mus , 73 : 239 – 258 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Tang , F , Jin , X , Kang , X and Zhang , G . 2001 . Omeisaurus maoianus, a complete Sauropoda from Jingyan, Sichuan , China Ocean Press . 128 pp. [In Chinese with English summary]
   Google Scholar
• Upchurch , P . 1995 . The evolutionary history of sauropod dinosaurs . Phil Trans R Soc Lond B , 349 : 365 – 390 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Upchurch , P . 1998 . The phylogenetic relationships of sauropod dinosaurs . Zool J Linn Soc Lond , 124 : 43 – 103 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Varricchio , DJ . 1997 . “ Growth and embryology ” . In Encyclopedia of dinosaurs , Edited by: Currie , PJ and Padian , K . 282 – 288 . San Diego : Academic Press .
   Google Scholar
• Weishampel , DB and Horner , JR . 1994 . “ Life history syndromes, heterochrony, and the evolution of Dinosauria ” . In Dinosaur eggs and babies , Edited by: Carpenter , K , Hirsch , KF and Horner , JR . 229 – 243 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Wilson , JA . 2002 . Sauropod dinosaur phylogeny: critique and cladistic analysis . Zool J Linn Soc , 136 : 217 – 276 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilson , JA and Sereno , PC . 1998 . Early evolution and higher-level phylogeny of sauropod dinosaurs . Mem Soc Vert Paleontol , 5 : 1 – 68 .
   Google Scholar
• Witmer , LM . 1997 . The evolution of the antorbital cavity in archosaurs: a study in soft-tissue reconstruction in the fossil record with an analysis of the function of pneumaticity . Mem Soc Vert Paleontol , 3 : 1 – 75 .
   Google Scholar
• Yates , AM . 2003 . A new species of the primitive dinosaur, Thecodontosaurus (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for the systematic of early dinosaurs . J Syst Paleont , 1 : 1 – 42 .
   Google Scholar
• Yates , AM . 2004 . Anchisaurus polyzelus Hitchcock: the smallest known sauropod dinosaur and the evolution of gigantism amongst sauropodomorph dinosaurs . Postilla , 230 : 1 – 58 .
   Google Scholar
• Young , C-C . 1941 . A complete osteology of Lufengosaurus huenei Young (gen. et sp. nov.) . Palaeontol Sinica (ser C) , 7 : 1 – 53 .
   Google Scholar
• Young , C-C . 1942 . Yunnanosaurus huangi (gen. et sp. nov.), a new Prosauropoda from the Red Beds at Lufeng, Yunnan . Bull Geol Soc China , 22 : 63 – 104 .
   Google Scholar