A massively-constructed iguanodont from Gadoufaoua,lower Cretaceous of Niger |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Laboratoire de paléontologie du Muséum national d''histoire naturelle, URA 12 CNRS, 8, rue Buffon, 75005 Paris, France;2. North Carolina State University, Department of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Box 8208, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695-8208, U.S.A;1. Canadian Museum of Nature, P.O Box 3443 STN ‘D’, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6P4, Canada;2. Shanxi Museum of Geology, Binhexilu Zhongduan, Taiyuan, Shanxi 030024, PR China;3. Department of Biology, Carthage College, 2001 Alford Park Drive, Kenosha, WI 53140, USA;4. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P. O. Box 643, Beijing 100044, PR China;5. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China;1. Department of Biology and Biochemistry and Milner Centre for Evolution, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom;2. Departamento de Estratigrafía y Paleontología, Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología, Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Apartado 644, 48080, Bilbao, Spain;3. Département Histoire de la Terre, Muséum national d''Histoire naturelle, CR2P, CNRS-MNHN-UPMC, Sorbonne Universités, CP38, France;4. Office Chérifien des Phosphates (OCP Group S.A.), Morocco;1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E9, Canada;2. Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology, Drumheller, Alberta, T0J 0Y0, Canada;3. Departamento de Ciencias Humanas, Universidad de La Rioja, 26004, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain;1. Área Paleontología, Museo Nacional de Historia Natural, Casilla 787, Santiago, Chile;2. Red Paleontológica U-Chile, Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Chile, Las Palmeras, 3425, Santiago, Chile;3. Laboratorio y Museo de Dinosaurios, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Av. Padre Contreras 1300, Edificio ECT, Parque General San Martín 5500, Mendoza, Argentina;4. ICB-CONICET UNCUYO, Argentina;5. Department of Biology, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, USA;6. Marchant Pereira 1931, D.305 G, Santiago, Chile;7. Consultora Paleosuchus Ltda, Huelen 165C, Providencia, Santiago, Chile;1. Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont, ICTA-ICP, Edifici Z, C/ de les Columnes s/n, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain;2. Museu de la Conca Dellà-Parc Cretaci, Carrer del Museum 4, 25650, Isona, Lleida, Spain;1. Laboratório de Paleontologia e Evolução de Ilha Solteira, UNESP, Ilha Solteira, Brazil;2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade, UNESP, São José Do Rio Preto, Brazil;3. Laboratório de Paleontologia, Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil;4. Museu de Paleontologia de Cruzeiro Do Oeste, Cruzeiro Do Oeste, PR, Brazil |
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| Abstract: | A ponderously constructed ornithischian dinosaur, Lurdusaurus arenatus, nov.g., nov.sp., from the Aptian of Niger resembles extinct giant ground sloths in general body form. Details of its skeletal anatomy indicate a close affinity to European iguanodontids of Early Cretaceous age. |
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