Skip to content Skip to navigation

Article: The affinities of the enigmatic dinosaur Eshanosaurus deguchiianus from the Early Jurassic of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 52
Part: 4
Publication Date: July 2009
Page(s): 681 – 688
Author(s): Paul M. Barrett
Addition Information

How to Cite

BARRETT, P. M. 2009. The affinities of the enigmatic dinosaur Eshanosaurus deguchiianus from the Early Jurassic of Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China. Palaeontology, 52, 4, 681–688.

Online Version Hosted By

Wiley Online Library
Get Article: Wiley Online Library [Pay-to-View Access] |

References

  • BARRETT, P. M. and UPCHURCH, P. 2007. The evolution of feeding mechanisms in early sauropodomorph dinosaurs. 91–112. In BARRETT, P. M. and BATTEN, D. J. (eds). Evolution and palaeobiology of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 77, 289 pp.
  • BARRETT, P. M. and YATES, A. M. 2006. New information on the palate and lower jaw of Massospondylus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha). Palaeontologia africana, 41, 123–130.
  • BONAPARTE, J. F. 1975. Nuevos materials de Lagosuchus talampayensis Romer (Thecodontia – Pseudosuchia) y su significado en el origen de los Saurischia. Chañarense inferior, Triásico medio de Argentina. Acta Geologica Lilloana, 13, 1–90.
  • BONAPARTE, J. F. and VINCE, M. 1979. El hallazgo del primer nido de dinosaurios Triasicos, (Saurischia, Prosauropoda), Triasico Superior de Patagonia, Argentina. Ameghiniana, 16, 173–182.
  • BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF YUNNAN PROVINCE 1990. Regional geology of Yunnan Province. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, x + 728 pp. [In Chinese with English summary].
  • BUTLER, R. J., UPCHURCH, P. and NORMAN, D. B. 2008. The phylogeny of the ornithischian dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 6, 1–40.
  • CHARIG, A. J. and MILNER, A. C. 1997. Baryonyx walkeri, a fish-eating dinosaur from the Wealden of Surrey. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, London (Geology Series), 53, 11–70.
  • CHATTERJEE, S. 1991. Cranial anatomy and relationships of a new Triassic bird from Texas. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B (Biological Sciences), 332, 277–342.
  • CHATTERJEE, S. 1993. Shuvosaurus, a new theropod. National Geographic Research and Exploration, 9, 284–285.
  • CLARK, J. M., MARYANSKA, T. and BARSBOLD, R. 2004. Therizinosauroidea. 151–164. In WEISHAMPEL, D. B., DODSON, P. and OSMÓLSKA, H. (eds). The Dinosauria, 2nd edn. University of California Press, Berkeley, xviii + 861 pp.
  • CLARK, J. M., PERLE A. and NORELL, M. A. 1994. The skull of Erlicosaurus andrewsi, a Late Cretaceous ‘segnosaur’ (Theropoda: Therizinosauridae) from Mongolia. American Museum Novitates, 3115, 1–39.
  • CURRIE, P. J. 1987. Bird-like characteristics of the jaws and teeth of troodontid theropods (Dinosauria, Saurischia). Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 7, 72–81.
  • DZIK, J. 2003. A beaked herbivorous archosaur with dinosaur affinities from the early Late Triassic of Poland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 23, 556–574.
  • GALTON, P. M. 1973. The cheeks of ornithischian dinosaurs. Lethaia, 6, 67–89.
  • GALTON, P. M. 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. Geologica et Palaeontologica, 18, 139–171.
  • GALTON, P. M. 1986. Herbivorous adaptations of Late Triassic and Early Jurassic dinosaurs. 203–221. In PADIAN, K. (ed.). The beginning of the age of the dinosaurs. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 378 pp.
  • GALTON, P. M. and UPCHURCH, P. 2004. Prosauropoda. 232–258. In WEISHAMPEL, D. B., DODSON, P. and OSMÓLSKA, H. (eds). The Dinosauria, 2nd edn. University of California Press, Berkeley, xviii + 861 pp.
  • GOW, C. E., KITCHING, J. W. and RAATH, M. A. 1990. Skulls of the prosauropod dinosaur Massospondylus carinatus Owen in the collections of the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research. Palaeontologia africana, 27, 45–58.
  • GRADSTEIN, F. M., OGG, J. G. and SMITH, A. G. (eds) 2004. A geologic timescale 2004. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 589 pp.
  • HOLTZ, T. R. 2000. A new phylogeny of the carnivorous dinosaurs. Gaia, 15, 5–61.
  • HOLTZ, T. R., MOLNAR, R. E. and CURRIE, P. J. 2004. Basal Tetanurae. 71–110. In WEISHAMPEL, D. B., DODSON, P. and OSMÓLSKA, H. (eds). The Dinosauria, 2nd edn. University of California Press, Berkeley, xviii + 861 pp.
  • IRMIS, R. B., NESBITT, S. J., PADIAN, K., SMITH, N. D., TURNER, A. H., WOODY, D. and DOWNS, A. 2007. A Late Triassic dinosauromorph assemblage from New Mexico and the rise of dinosaurs. Science, 317, 358–361.
  • KIRKLAND, J. I. and WOLFE, D. G. 2001. First definitive therizinosaurid dinosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from North America. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21, 410–414.
  • KIRKLAND, J. I., ZANNO, L. E., SAMPSON, S. D., CLARK, J. M. and DEBLIEUX, D. D. 2005. A primitive therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Utah. Nature, 435, 84–85.
  • LANGER, M. C. and BENTON, M. J. 2006. Early dinosaurs: a phylogenetic study. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 4, 309–358.
  • LUO ZHE-XI and WU XIAO-CHUN 1994. The small tetrapods of the Lower Lufeng Formation, Yunnan, China. 251–270. In FRASER, N. C. and SUES, H.-D. (eds). In the shadow of the dinosaurs: early Mesozoic tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 435 pp.
  • NESBITT, S. J. 2007. The anatomy of Effigia okeeffeae (Archosauria, Suchia), theropod-like convergence, and the distribution of related taxa. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 302, 1–84.
  • NESBITT, S. J., IRMIS, R. B. and PARKER, W. G. 2007. A critical re-evaluation of the Late Triassic dinosaur taxa of North America. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 5, 209–243.
  • PAUL, G. S. 1984. The segnosaurian dinosaurs: relics of the prosauropod-ornithischian transition? Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 4, 507–515.
  • PÉREZ-MORENO, B. P., SANZ, J. L., BUSCALIONI, A. D., MORATALLA, J. J., ORTEGA, F. and RASSKIN-GUTMAN, D. 1994. A unique multi-toothed ornithomimosaur dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain. Nature, 370, 363–367.
  • POL, D. and POWELL, J. E. 2007. Skull anatomy of Mussaurus patagonicus (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Late Triassic of Patagonia. Historical Biology, 19, 125–144.
  • RAUHUT, O. W. M. 1997. Zur Schdelanatomie von Shuvosaurus inexpectatus (Dinosauria; Theropoda). Terra Nostra, 1997 (7), 17–21.
  • RAUHUT, O. W. M. 2003. The interrelationships and evolution of basal theropod dinosaurs. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 69, 1–213.
  • RAUHUT, O. W. M. 2005. Osteology and relationships of a new theropod dinosaur from the Middle Jurassic of Patagonia. Palaeontology, 48, 87–110.
  • RAUHUT, O. W. M. and MILNER, A. C. 2008. Cranial anatomy and systematic position of the Middle Jurassic theropod dinosaur Proceratosaurus from England. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 28 (Suppl. 3), 130A.
  • RUSSELL, D. A. and DONG ZHI-MING 1993. The affinities of a new theropod from the Alxa Desert, Inner Mongolia, People’s Republic of China. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 30, 2107–2127.
  • SERENO, P. C. 1999. The evolution of dinosaurs. Science, 284, 1237–1247.
  • SERENO, P. C. and ARCUCCI, A. B. 1994. Dinosaurian precursors from the Middle Triassic of Argentina: Lagerpeton chanarensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 13, 385–399.
  • SERENO, P. C. and NOVAS, F. 1994. The skull and neck of the basal theropod Herrerasaurus ischigualastensis. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 13, 451–476.
  • SUES, H.-D., REISZ, R. R., HINIC, S. and RAATH, M. A. 2004. On the skull of Massospondylus carinatus Owen, 1854 (Dinosauria: Sauropodomorpha) from the Stormberg Group (Lower Jurassic) of South Africa. Annals of the Carnegie Museum, 73, 239–257.
  • UPCHURCH, P. and BARRETT, P. M. 2000. The evolution of sauropod feeding mechanisms. 79–122. In SUES, H.-D. (ed.). Evolution of herbivory in terrestrial vertebrates: perspectives from the fossil record. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 256 pp.
  • UPCHURCH, P., BARRETT, P. M. and DODSON, P. 2004. Sauropoda. 259–322. In WEISHAMPEL, D. B., DODSON, P. and OSMÓLSKA, H. (eds). The Dinosauria, 2nd edn. University of California Press, Berkeley, xviii + 861 pp.
  • UPCHURCH, P., BARRETT, P. M. and GALTON, P. M. 2007. A phylogenetic analysis of basal sauropodomorph relationships: implications for the origin of sauropod dinosaurs. 57–90. In BARRETT, P. M. and BATTEN, D. J. (eds). Evolution and palaeobiology of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 77, 289 pp.
  • WEISHAMPEL, D. B., BARRETT, P. M., CORIA, R. A., LE LOEUFF, J., XU XING, ZHAO XIJIN, SAHNI, A., GOMANI, E. M. P. and NOTO, C. R. 2004. Dinosaur distribution. 517–606. In WEISHAMPEL, D. B., DODSON, P. and OSMÓLSKA, H. (eds). The Dinosauria, 2nd edn. University of California Press, Berkeley, 861 pp.
  • WILLS, M. A., BARRETT, P. M. and HEATHCOTE, J. F. 2008. The stratigraphic congruence of dinosaur phylogenies and the Modified Gap Excess Ration (GER*). Systematic Biology, 57, 891–907.
  • WITMER, L. M. 2002. The debate on avian ancestry: phylogeny, function, and fossils. 3–30. In CHIAPPE, L. M. and WITMER, L. M. (eds). Mesozoic birds: above the heads of dinosaurs. University of California Press, Berkeley, xii + 520.
  • XU XING, TANG ZHI-LU and WANG XIAO-LIN 1999. A therizinosauroid dinosaur with integumentary structures from China. Nature, 399, 350–354.
  • XU XING, ZHAO XI-JIN and CLARK, J. M. 2001. A new therizinosaur from the Lower Jurassic Lower Lufeng Formation of Yunnan, China. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 21, 477–483.
  • YATES, A. M. 2003. A new species of the primitive dinosaur Thecodontosaurus (Saurischia: Sauropodomorpha) and its implications for the systematics of early dinosaurs. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 1, 1–42.
  • YATES, A. M. 2007. The first complete skull of the Triassic dinosaur Melanorosaurus Haughton (Sauropodomorpha: Anchisauria). 9–55. In BARRETT, P. M. and BATTEN, D. J. (eds). Evolution and palaeobiology of early sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 77, 289 pp.
  • YE HIANG-KUI 1975. Jurassic system. 11–30. In Nanjing institute of geology and palaeontology (ed.) Mesozoic redbeds of Yunnan. Geological Publishing House, Beijing, 214 pp. [In Chinese].
  • YOUNG CHUNG-CHIEN 1951. The Lufeng saurischian fauna. Palaeontologica Sinica, Series C, 13, 1–96. pls 1–12.
  • ZHANG XIAO-HONG, XU XING, ZHAO XI-JIN, SERENO, P. C., KUANG XUE-WEN and TAN LIN 2001. A long-necked therizinosauroid dinosaur from the Upper Cretaceous Iren Dabasu Formation of Nei Mongol, People’s Republic of China. Vertebrata PalAsiatica, 39, 282–290+ pls 1–3.
  • ZHANG YI-HONG and YANG ZHAO-LONG 1994. A new complete osteology of Prosauropoda in Lufeng Basin, Yunnan, China. Yunnan Publishing House of Science and Technology, Kunming, 100 pp. + 24 pls [In Chinese with English summary].
  • ZHAO, XI-JIN and XU XING 1998. The oldest coelurosaurian. Nature, 394, 234–235.
PalAss Go! URL: http://go.palass.org/5d4 | Twitter: Share on Twitter | Facebook: Share on Facebook | Google+: Share on Google+