Galveosaurus herreroi, new sauropod from the Late Jurassic of Spain

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Sánchez-Hernández, B. (2005).  _Galveosaurus herreroi_, a new sauropod 
dinosaur from Villar del
Arzobispo Formation (Tithonian-Berriasian) of Spain.  Zootaxa 1034: 1?20.

(Sorry, all I have is the Abstract).

Abstract: The Galve fossil sites (province of Teruel, Spain) have provided 
many Mesozoic vertebrate
remains.  Among these are isolated sauropod dinosaur bones, including one 
taxon reported only
from this locality, _Aragosaurus ischiaticus_.  Here, a new species is named 
from the Tithonian deposits of the Villar del Arzobispo Formation, of Galve 
(Teruel province, Spain), _Galveosaurus herreroi_ gen. et sp. nov.  It is 
represented by two humeri, one sternal plate, one ischium, one scapula, one 
cervical vertebra, one caudal dorsal vertebra, five caudal vertebrae, one 
Y-shaped chevron and some fragments of ribs.  This new species is an 
eusauropod dinosaur that shows primitive features such as a slightly curved 
ischium with an unexpanded distal end, amphicoelous vertebrae, neural spine 
not bifid and an unforked chevron.  It appears to be closer to cetiosaurid 
genera such as _Barapasaurus_ or _Cetiosaurus_.  This new basal sauropod 
lived at the same time as the eusauropod _Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis_ from 
Portugal.  These are both relict genera that survived in the Iberian 
Peninsula when more derived neosauropods, such as _Losillasaurus_ or 
_Dinheirosaurus_, had taken over other parts of Iberia.