Thursday, June 14, 2018

[Paleontology • 2018] Acantholipan gonzalezi • Paleodiversity of Late Cretaceous Ankylosauria from Mexico and Their Phylogenetic Significance


Acantholipan gonzalezi 
Rivera-Sylva, Frey, Stinnesbeck, Carbot-Chanona, Sanchez-Uribe & Guzmán-Gutiérrez, 2018


Abstract
Isolated bones and osteoderms of ankylosaurian dinosaurs recovered from Late Cretaceous sediments of northern Coahuila, northeastern Mexico, have been identified as remains of nodosaurids. Here, we summarize these discoveries and provide a review on Mexican Ankylosauria from a taxonomic perspective. We also present a new taxon, Acantholipan gonzalezi gen. et sp. nov. from the Pen Formation and provide a phylogenetic analysis integrating the new taxon. A. gonzalezi is the first named ankylosaur from Mexico that adds to the currently rare nodosaurid diversity from southern Laramidia.

Keywords: Dinosaur, Nodosauridae, Pen Formation, Mexico, Endemism, Laramidia 


Dinosauria Owen (1842)
Ornithischia Seeley (1887)
Thyreophora Nopcsa (1915)

Ankylosauria Osborn (1923)
Nodosauridae Marsh, 1890



Acantholipan gen. nov.
 Acantholipan gonzalezi sp. nov.

 Etymology: Greek αγκάθι (acanthus) = spine; and the Spanish contraction of Lépai-Ndé (gray people) lipan, a tribe of Apaches from northern Mexico; gonzalezi = in honor of Arturo H. Gonzalez González, for his outstanding support to Mexican paleontology.


Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva, Eberhard Frey, Wolfgang Stinnesbeck, Gerardo Carbot-Chanona, Iván E. Sanchez-Uribe and José Rubén Guzmán-Gutiérrez. 2018. Paleodiversity of Late Cretaceous Ankylosauria from Mexico and Their Phylogenetic Significance. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology DOI: 10.1007/s13358-018-0153-1

 Rivera-Sylva, H.E., Carpenter, K. and Aranda-Manteca, F.J. 2011, Late Cretaceous Nodosaurids (Ankylosauria: Ornithischia) from Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas. 28(3); 271–278.  satori.geociencias.unam.mx/28-3/(04)RiveraSylva.pdf


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