Oryctos
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| volume 2, 1999 |
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Virginia Tidwell, Kenneth Carpenter & Williams Brooks, New sauropod from the Lower Cretaceous of Utah, USA. Oryctos 2, 21-37.
The sauropod record for the Lower Cretaceous is poor in North America and consists mostly of isolated bones. Recently, however, a partial semiarticulated skeleton of a brachiosaurid, Cedarosaurus weiskopfae n.g., n.sp, was recovered from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. The humeral length is almost the same as the femur, while the dorsal and caudal vertebrae, and the metacarpal all display characters that identify the specimen as brachiosaurid. The forelimb and caudal vertebrae distinctly set it apart from all currently described genera in that family. A brief review of Early to Middle Cretaceous brachiosaurs sorts through the confusing jumble of taxa that has developed over the years. In North America, most brachiosaurids found in Lower or Middle Cretaceous strata have historically been referred to the genus Pleurocoelus. The review illustrates the need for a reexamination of Pleurocoelus type material, as well as several specimens referred to that genus. Other material previously assigned to Pleurocoelus may yet prove to be the same as Cedarosaurus weiskopfae.
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