雙尖恥骨龍屬
雙尖恥骨龍(學名:Amphekepubis)是滄龍科存疑的一個屬,來自晚白堊世的墨西哥。[1]正模標本UM VP 509為三維狀態保存的部分骨骼,由骨盆區域、前後肢及九節尾椎組成,發現於新萊昂州蒙特雷東部聖菲利佩組的海洋沉積物(黏土岩)中,時間處在晚白堊世早期科尼亞克階與桑托階的邊界上。[2][3]雙尖恥骨龍被歸入滄龍科中的滄龍亞科。[4]
雙尖恥骨龍屬 化石時期:晚白堊世,
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科學分類 | |
界: | 動物界 Animalia |
門: | 脊索動物門 Chordata |
綱: | 爬蟲綱 Reptilia |
目: | 有鱗目 Squamata |
總科: | †滄龍總科 Mosasauroidea |
科: | †滄龍科 Mosasauridae |
屬: | †雙尖恥骨龍屬 Amphekepubis Mehl, 1930 |
模式種 | |
†約氏雙尖恥骨龍 Amphekepubis johnsoni Mehl, 1930
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已有人提出歸入雙尖恥骨龍的化石年代可能更晚,因此其遺骸可能屬於滄龍屬,[5][6]近來某些研究亦簡單地將其正模標本歸入滄龍。[3]
參考資料
- ^ †Amphekepubis Mehl 1930. Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. [17 December 2021].
- ^ Mehl, M. G. A new genus of mosasaurs from Mexico, and notes on the pelvic girdle of Platecarpus. Denison University Bulletin, Journal of the Scientific Laboratories. 1930, 29 (10): 383–400.
- ^ 3.0 3.1 Buchy, M.-C.; Smith, K. T.; Frey, E.; Stinnesbeck, W.; González, A. H. González; Ifrim, C.; López-Oliva, J. G.; Porras-Muzquiz, H. Annotated catalogue of marine squamates (Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous of northeastern Mexico. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 2005, 84 (3): 195–205. ISSN 0016-7746. S2CID 132009809. doi:10.1017/S0016774600020977 (英語).
- ^ DeBraga, Michael; Carroll, Robert L., Hecht, Max K.; MacIntyre, Ross J.; Clegg, Michael T. , 編, The Origin of Mosasaurs As a Model of Macroevolutionary Patterns and Processes, Evolutionary Biology (Boston, MA: Springer US), 1993: 245–322 [2022-07-13], ISBN 978-1-4615-2878-4, doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-2878-4_7 (英語)
- ^ Buchy, Marie-Céline; Eberhard Frey; Wolfgang Stinnesbeck; José Guadalupe López-Oliva. Cranial anatomy of a Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) mosasaur (Squamata, Mosasauridae) from north-east Mexico (PDF). Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 2007, 24 (1): 89–103 [2017-07-12]. (原始內容 (PDF)存檔於2016-03-07).
- ^ Lingham-Soliar, Theagarten. Anatomy and functional morphology of the largest marine reptile known, Mosasaurus hoffmanni (Mosasauridae, Reptilia) from the Upper Cretaceous, Upper Maastrichtian of The Netherlands. Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences. 1995, 347 (1320): 155–180. JSTOR 55929. doi:10.1098/rstb.1995.0019.