Fwd: Re: New Hadrosauroid and Titanosaur from Mazongshan area

["Nick Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>]

Thanks to Ken Carpenter, John Cooper and Dan Varner for forwarding this to 
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Hy to all the ListMembers, last night in searching through 
"ProQuest"dissertation-service I've found an interesting PhD:
_You, Hai-lu 2002 Mazongshan dinosaur assemblage from late Early Cretaceous 
of northwest China University of Pennsylvania pp:1-164
The "ProQuest" service furnish some page in preview and in the section 
devoted to Euornithopoda the author mention that the Euornithopod found in 
the Ma-Zong-Shan area include small primitive Hypsilophodontidae as 
Silousaurus zhanqiani (Dong, 1997d) and large Iguanodontia as 
Probactrosaurus mazongshanensis (Lu, 1997) (after Norman 2002,not referrable 
to the genus Probactrosaurus). But of interest for some ListMembers is the 
complete skull and the partial postcranium assigned to a new genus and 
species: Equijubus normani found in the Middle Gray Unit of Gongpoquan Basin 
in 2000 the author cited that this new taxon occupies the most basal 
position within the Hadrosauroidea.
Of interest is also the section devoted to Sauropoda, in which the author 
cited an almost complete middle and caudal portion of a tail and a left 
hind-limb assigned to a new genus and species Gobititan shenzhouensis always 
found in the Middle Gray Bed of Gongpoquan Basin in 1999, for the author 
Gobititan represent a new basal Titanosaur.
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