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7 February 2012 First Evidence of a Mamenchisaurid Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Phu Kradung Formation of Thailand
Suravech Suteethorn, Jean Le Loeuff, Eric Buffetaut, Varavudh Suteethorn, Kamonrak Wongko
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Abstract

An isolated posterior cervical vertebra of a sauropod discovered at Phu Dan Ma (Kalasin Province, northeastern Thailand) is the first informative postcranial specimen from the Phu Kradung Formation, a Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous continental unit. The vertebra is referred to the family Mamenchisauridae, otherwise mainly known from China. In addition, spatulate teeth from the same formation and a mid-dorsal vertebra from the Upper Jurassic Khlong Min Formation of southern Thailand are reassigned to this family. The occurrence of mamenchisaurids in the earliest Cretaceous of Thailand supports a hypothesis of geographical isolation of Central, Eastern, and Southeast Asia during the Late Jurassic. It also suggests that the main changes in their dinosaur assemblages occurred during the Early Cretaceous, rather than at the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary.

© 2013 S. Suteethorn et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Suravech Suteethorn, Jean Le Loeuff, Eric Buffetaut, Varavudh Suteethorn, and Kamonrak Wongko "First Evidence of a Mamenchisaurid Dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous Phu Kradung Formation of Thailand," Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 58(3), 459-469, (7 February 2012). https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2009.0155
Received: 3 January 2012; Accepted: 1 January 2012; Published: 7 February 2012
KEYWORDS
Cretaceous
Dinosauria
Jurassic
Mamenchisauridae
Thailand
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