双尖耻骨龙属

双尖耻骨龙学名Amphekepubis)是沧龙科存疑的一个,来自晚白垩世墨西哥[1]正模标本UM VP 509为三维状态保存的部分骨骼,由骨盆区域、前后肢及九节尾椎组成,发现于新莱昂州蒙特雷东部圣菲利佩组的海洋沉积物(黏土岩英语claystone)中,时间处在晚白垩世早期科尼亚克阶桑托阶的边界上。[2][3]双尖耻骨龙被归入沧龙科中的沧龙亚科[4]

双尖耻骨龙属
化石时期:晚白垩世89.3–84.9 Ma
科学分类 编辑
界: 动物界 Animalia
门: 脊索动物门 Chordata
纲: 爬行纲 Reptilia
目: 有鳞目 Squamata
总科: 沧龙总科 Mosasauroidea
科: 沧龙科 Mosasauridae
属: 双尖耻骨龙属 Amphekepubis
Mehl英语Maurice Mehl, 1930
模式种
约氏双尖耻骨龙
Amphekepubis johnsoni

Mehl, 1930

已有人提出归入双尖耻骨龙的化石年代可能更晚,因此其遗骸可能属于沧龙属[5][6]近来某些研究亦简单地将其正模标本归入沧龙。[3]

参考资料

  1. ^ Amphekepubis Mehl 1930. Paleobiology Database. Fossilworks. [17 December 2021]. 
  2. ^ 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. ^ 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  (英语). 
  4. ^ DeBraga, Michael; Carroll, Robert L., Hecht, Max K.; MacIntyre, Ross J.; Clegg, Michael T. , 编, 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 (英语) 
  5. ^ 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]. (原始内容 (PDF)存档于2016-03-07). 
  6. ^ 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. 

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