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Article: The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new species of Elginia (Parareptilia, Pareiasauria)

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Publication: Papers in Palaeontology
Volume: 4
Part: 2
Publication Date: May 2018
Page(s): 197 209
Author(s): Jun Liu, and Gabriel S. Bever
DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1105
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LIU, J., BEVER, G.S. 2018. The tetrapod fauna of the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of China: a new species of Elginia (Parareptilia, Pareiasauria) . Papers in Palaeontology, 4, 2, 197-209. DOI: 10.1002/spp2.1105

Author Information

  • Jun Liu - Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution & Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100044 China
  • Jun Liu - University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 China
  • Gabriel S. Bever - Center for Functional Anatomy & Evolution Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore MD USA

Publication History

  • Issue published online: 07 May 2018
  • Manuscript Accepted: 06 December 2017
  • Manuscript Received: 15 September 2017

Funded By

National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant Number: 41572019
Chinese Academy of Sciences. Grant Number: XDPB0501
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy. Grant Number: 20161101

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Abstract

The pareiasaur fossil record in China is poor compared to that of Russia or South Africa. A new pareiasaur specimen is here reported from the upper Permian Naobaogou Formation of the Daqing Mountains, Nei Mongol, China. It is recognized as a new species of Elginia, a taxon otherwise known only from the upper Permian Cutties Hillock Sandstone of Scotland. Diagnostic features include a moderately developed cheek flange; prominent otic notch (formed between squamosal and quadratojugal at the posterior margin of the temporal plate); enlarged supraorbital bosses on prefrontal, postfrontal and postorbital; a hypertrophied supratemporal horn, and squamosal horn prominently projecting posteriorly from caudal margin of temporal plate. The new taxon is differentiated from Emirabilis by a well‐developed and crescentic postfrontal boss, which is the largest among a series of circumorbital bosses; upper orbital border distinctly domed with a smooth rather than angled anterodorsal margin; lesser developed cranial bosses, basal confluence of the transverse process and postzygapophysis forms a horizontal flange in some dorsal vertebrae. The new discovery significantly extends the geographical distribution of Elginia and Elginiidae.

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