Re: [dinosaur] Adratiklit, new stegosaur from Middle Jurassic of Morocco (free pdf)

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 9:02 PM Ben Creisler <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Ben Creisler
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> A new paper:
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> Adratiklit boulahfa gen. et sp. nov.
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> Susannah C. R. Maidment, Thomas J. Raven, Driss Ouarhache & Paul M. Barret
> (2019)
> North Africa's first stegosaur: Implications for Gondwanan thyreophoran
> dinosaur diversity.
> Gondwana Research (advance online publication)
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> Highlights
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> Adratiklit boulahfa is a new genus of stegosaur from Morocco.
> Adratiklit is the oldest definitive stegosaur and the first from north
> Africa.
> It is closely related to the European stegosaurs Dacentrurus and Mirigaia.
> The dinosaur fossil record of Gondwana is biased.
> Armoured dinosaurs may have been as diverse in Gondwana as they were in
> Laurasia.
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> Abstract
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> Eurypoda, the major radiation of armoured dinosaurs, comprises the
> ankylosaurs and their sister group, the stegosaurs. As the
> earliest-branching major clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, the evolutionary
> history of Eurypoda is significant for understanding both the palaeobiology
> of bird-hipped dinosaurs and the composition of middle Mesozoic ecosystems.
> Eurypodans were diverse and abundant throughout the Late Jurassic and
> Cretaceous in Laurasia; in contrast, their remains are extremely rare in
> Gondwana. Herein, we describe a new genus and species of stegosaur from the
> Middle Jurassic of Morocco, Adratiklit boulahfa. Adratiklit is the first
> eurypodan from north Africa and the oldest definitive stegosaur from
> anywhere in the world. The genus is more closely related to the European
> stegosaurs Dacentrurus and Miragaia than it is to the southern African taxa
> Kentrosaurus and Paranthodon. Statistically significant correlations
> between the number of dinosaur-bearing formations, dinosaur-bearing
> collections, and eurypodan occurrences in Gondwana indicates that their
> fossil record is biased by both geological and anthropogenic factors.
> Tantalizing but fragmentary remains and trackways suggest that eurypodan
> diversity in Gondwana may have been as rich as that of Laurasia, and the
> prospects for future discoveries of new genera across Gondwana are
> therefore very good.
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