A new ornithischian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation of Japan

LITERATURE CITED

• Azuma , Y. and Currie , P. J. 2000 . A new carnosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. . Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences , 37 : 1735 – 1753 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Barrett , P. M. 2001 . “ Tooth wear and possible jaw action of Scelidosaurus harrisonii Owen and a review of feeding mechanisms in other thyreophoran dinosaurs; ” . In The Armored Dinosaurs Edited by: Carpenter , K. 25 – 52 . Bloomington, Indianapolis : Indiana University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Barrett , P. M. and Manabe , M. 2000 . The dinosaur fauna from the earliest Cretaceous Tetori Group of central Honshu, Japan. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 20 ( 3, Supplement ) : 28A – 29A .
   Google Scholar
• Barrett , P. M. , Hasegawa , Y. , Manabe , M. , Isaji , S. and Matsuoka , H. 2002 . Sauropod dinosaurs from the Lower Cretaceous of Eastern Asia: taxonomic and biogeographical implications. . Palaeontology , 45 : 1197 – 1217 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Butler , R. J. , Upchurch , P. and Norman , D. B. 2008 . The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs. . Journal of Systematic Palaeontology , 6 : 1 – 40 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Colbert , E. H. 1981 . A primitive ornithischian dinosaur from the Kayenta Formation of Arizona. . Bulletin of the Museum of Northern Arizona , 53 : 1 – 61 .
   Google Scholar
• Coombs , W. P. Jr. 1982 . Juvenile specimens of the ornithischian dinosaur Psittacosaurus . Palaeontology , 25 : 89 – 107 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dong , Z.-M. and Azuma , Y. 1997 . “ On a primitive neoceratopsian from the Early Cretaceous of China; ” . In Sino-Japanese Silk Road Dinosaur Expedition Edited by: Dong , Z.-M. 68 – 89 . Beijing : China Ocean Press .
   Google Scholar
• Enkin , R. J. , Yang , Z.-Y. , Chen , Y. and Courtillot , V. 1992 . Paleomagnetic constraints on the geodynamic history of the major blocks of China from the Permian to the present. . Journal of Geophysical Research , 97 ( B10 ) : 13953 – 13989 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evans , S. E. and Manabe , M. 2008 . An early herbivorous lizard from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. . Palaeontology , 51 : 487 – 498 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Evans , S. E. , Manabe , M. , Noro , M. , Isaji , S. and Yamaguchi , M. 2006 . A long-bodied lizard from the Lower Cretaceous of Japan. . Palaeontology , 49 : 1143 – 1165 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Fujita , M. 2003 . Geological age and correlation of the vertebrate-bearing horizons in the Tetori Group. . Memoir of the Fukui Prefectural Dinosaur Museum , 2 : 3 – 14 .
   Google Scholar
• Galton , P. M. 1973 . The cheeks of ornithischian dinosaurs. . Lethaia , 6 : 67 – 89 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Galton , P. M. 1974 . The ornithischian dinosaur Hypsilophodon from the Wealden of the Isle of Wight. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) . Geology , 25 : 1 – 152 .
   Google Scholar
• Galton , P. M. 1997 . Cranial anatomy of the basal hypsilophodontid dinosaur Thescelosaurus neglectus Gilmore (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. . Revue de Paléobiologie , 16 : 231 – 258 .
   Google Scholar
• Galton , P. M. 1999 . Cranial anatomy of the hypsilophodontid dinosaur Bugenasaura infernalis (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of North America. . Revue de Paléobiologie , 18 : 517 – 534 .
   Google Scholar
• Hasegawa , Y. , Manabe , M. , Isaji , S. , Ohkura , M. , Shibata , I. and Yamaguchi , I. 1995 . Terminally resorbed iguanodontid teeth from the Neocomian Tetori Group, Ishikawa and Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum . Series C (Geology and Paleontology) , 21 : 35 – 49 .
   Google Scholar
• He , X.-L. and Cai , K.-J. 1984 . The Middle Jurassic dinosaurian fauna from Dashanpu, Zigong, Sichuan. Volume 1. The ornithopod dinosaurs 71 Chengdu : Sichuan Scientific and Technological Publishing House . [Chinese with English abstract]
   Google Scholar
• Isaji , S. 1993 . Nippononaia ryosekiana (Bivalvia, Mollusca) from the Tetori Group in central Japan. Bulletin of the National Science Museum . Series C (Geology and Paleontology) , 19 : 65 – 71 .
   Google Scholar
• Isaji , S. , Okazaki , H. , Hirayama , R. , Matsuoka , H. , Barrett , H. P.M. , Tsubamoto , T. , Yamaguchi , M. , Yamaguchi , I. and Sakumoto , T. 2005 . Depositional environments and taphonomy of the bone-bearing beds of the Lower Cretaceous Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History and Human History . Series A (Natural History) , 3 : 123 – 133 .
   Google Scholar
• Isozaki , Y. 1996 . Anatomy and genesis of a subduction-related orogen: a new view of geotectonic subdivision and evolution of the Japanese islands. . The Island Arc , 5 : 289 – 320 .
   Google Scholar
• Kobayashi , Y. and Azuma , Y. 2003 . A new iguanodontian (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) from the Lower Cretaceous Kitadani Formation of Fukui Prefecture, Japan. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 23 : 166 – 175 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kusuhashi , N. , Matsuoka , H. , Kamiya , H. and Setoguchi , T. 2002 . Stratigraphy of the late Mesozoic Tetori Group in the Hakusan Region, central Japan: an overview. Memoirs of the Faculty of Science Kyoto University . Geology and Mineralogy Series , 59 : 9 – 31 .
   Google Scholar
• Maeda , S. 1961 . On the geological history of the Mesozoic Tetori Group in Japan. . Japanese Journal of Geology and Gepgraphy , 32 : 375 – 396 .
   Google Scholar
• Manabe , M. and Barrett , P. M. 2000 . “ Dinosaurs; ” . In Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-bluff): scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Ishikawa, Japan. Shiramine Village Board of Education, Ishikawa Prefecture. [Japanese 93–97; English 98] Edited by: Matsuoka , H. 93 – 98 .
   Google Scholar
• Manabe , M. , Barrett , P. M. and Isaji , S. 2000 . A refugium for relicts? . Nature , 404 : 953
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Manabe , M. , Hasegawa , Y. and Azuma , Y. 1989 . “ Two new dinosaur footprints from the Early Cretaceous Tetori Group of Japan; ” . In Dinosaur Tracks and Traces Edited by: Gillette , D. D. and Lockley , M. G. 309 – 312 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Matsumoto , R. , Evans , S. E. and Manabe , M. 2007 . The choristoderan reptile Monjurosuchus from Early Cretaceous of Japan. . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica , 52 : 329 – 350 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Matsumoto , T. , Obata , I. , Tashiro , M. , Ohta , Y. , Tamura , M. , Matsukawa , M. and Tanaka , H. 1982 . Correlation of marine and non-marine formations in the Cretaceous of Japan. . Fossils , 31 : 1 – 26 . [Japanese with English abstract]
   Google Scholar
• Matsuoka , H. , ed. 2000 . Fossils of the Kuwajima “Kaseki-kabe” (Fossil-bluff): scientific report on a Neocomian (Early Cretaceous) fossil assemblage from the Kuwajima Formation, Tetori Group, Ishikawa, Japan 277 Ishikawa Prefecture : Shiramine Village Board of Education . [Japanese with English summaries]
   Google Scholar
• Peng , G.-Z. 1992 . Jurassic ornithopod Agilisaurus louderbacki (Ornithopoda: Fabrosauridae) from Zigong, Sichuan, China. . Vertebrata PalAsiatica , 30 : 39 – 51 . [Chinese with English abstract]
   Google Scholar
• Rich , T. H. V. and Rich , P. V. 1989 . Polar dinosaurs and biotas of the Early Cretaceous of southeastern Australia. . National Geographic Research , 5 : 15 – 53 .
   Google Scholar
• Sato , T. , Hachiya , K. and Mizuno , Y. 2003 . Latest Jurassic-Early Cretaceous ammonites from the Tetori Group in Shokawa, Gifu Prefecture. . Bulletin of the Mizunami Fossil Museum , 30 : 151 – 167 . [Japanese with English abstract]
   Google Scholar
• Scheetz , R. D. 1999 . 186 Osteology of Orodromeus makelai and the phylogeny of basal ornithopod dinosaurs. Ph.D. dissertation, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana
   Google Scholar
• Seeley , H. G. 1887 . On the classification of the fossil animals commonly named Dinosauria. . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London , 43 : 165 – 171 .
   Google Scholar
• Sereno , P. C. 1986 . Phylogeny of the bird-hipped dinosaurs (Order Ornithischia). . National Geographic Research , 2 : 234 – 256 .
   Google Scholar
• Sereno , P. C. 1991 . Lesothosaurus, “fabrosaurids”, and the early evolution of Ornithischia. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 11 : 168 – 197 .
   Google Scholar
• Sereno , P. C. 2000 . “ The fossil record, systematics and evolution of pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians from Asia; ” . In The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia Edited by: Benton , M. J. , Shishkin , M. A. , Unwin , D. M. and Kurochkin , E. N. 480 – 516 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Sereno , P. C. and Chao , S.-C. 1988 . Psittacosaurus xinjiangensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia), a new psittacosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northwestern China. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 8 : 353 – 365 .
   Google Scholar
• Sereno , P. C. , Chao , S.-C. , Cheng , Z.-W. and Rao , C.-G. 1988 . Psittaco-saurus meileyingensis (Ornithischia: Ceratopsia), a new psittacosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of northeastern China. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 8 : 366 – 377 .
   Google Scholar
• Sues , H.-D. 1980 . Anatomy and relationships of a new hypsilophodontid dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of North America. . Palaeontographica Abteilung A , 169 : 51 – 72 .
   Google Scholar
• Swofford , D. L. 2002 . PAUP: phylogenetic analysis using parsimony, version 4.0b10 London : Macmillan Publishers .
   Google Scholar
• Weishampel , D. B. 1984 . Evolution of jaw mechanisms in ornithopod dinosaurs. Advances in Anatomy . Embryology and Cell Biology , 87 : 1 – 110 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Weishampel , D. B. , Jianu , C.-M. , Csiki , Z. and Norman , D. B. 2003 . Osteology and phylogeny of Zalmoxes (n. g.), an unusual euornithopod dinosaur from the latest Cretaceous of Romania. . Journal of Sytematic Palaeontology , 1 : 65 – 123 .
   Google Scholar
• Xu , X. , Wang , X.-L. and You , H.-L. 2000 . A primitive ornithopod from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of Liaoning. . Vertebrata PalAsiatica , 38 : 318 – 325 .
   Google Scholar
• Xu , X.-L. , Forster , C. A. , Clark , J. M. and Mo , J.-Y. 2006 . A basal ceratopsian with transitional features from the Late Jurassic of northwestern China. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . Series B , 273 : 2135 – 2140 .
   Google Scholar
• Xu , X. , Makovicky , P. J. , Wang , X.-L. , Norell , M. A. and You , H.-L. 2002 . A ceratopsian dinosaur from China and the early evolution of Ceratopsia. . Nature , 416 : 314 – 317 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• You , H.-L. and Dodson , P. 2003 . Redescription of the neoceratopsian dinosaur Archaeoceratops and the early evolution of Neoceratopsia. . Acta Palaeontologica Polonica , 48 : 261 – 272 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• You , H.-L. , Xu , X. and Wang , X.-L. 2003 . A new genus of Psittacosauridae (Dinosauria: Ornithopoda) and the origin and early evolution of marginocephalian dinosaurs. . Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) , 77 : 15 – 20 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhao , X.-J. , Cheng , Z.-W. and Xu , X. 1999 . The earliest ceratopsian from the Tuchengzi Formation of Liaoning, China. . Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology , 19 : 681 – 691 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zhao , X.-J. , Cheng , Z.-W. , Xu , X. and Makovicky , P. J. 2006 . A new ceratopsian from the Upper Jurassic Houcheng Formation of Hebei, China. . Acta Geologica Sinica (English edition) , 80 : 467 – 473 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar