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[dinosaur] New Spanish ornithopod? + Grallator theropod tracks from Late Jurassic of Asturias + dinosaur eggs from Cameros Basin, Spain (free pdfs)





Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com


There is a new issue of the Spanish Journal of Palaeontology with dinosaur-related papers. 


https://dialnet.unirioja.es/ejemplar/449046

However, the official versions of the papers apparently have not yet been posted yet to the open access website:


http://sepaleontologia.es/numeros-anteriores-2/


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I can't  find more info on this paper or a pdf link at the moment, but the title suggests that it names and describes a new ornithopod dinosaur taxon.

Carolina Fuentes Vidarte, Manuel Meijide Calvo, Federico Meijide Fuentes, Manuel Meijide Fuentes (2016) [2017]
Un nuevo dinosaurio estiracosterno (Ornithopoda: Ankylopollexia) del Cretácico Inferior de España. [A new styracosternan dinosaur (Ornithopoda: Ankylopollexia) from the Lower Cretaceous of Spain]
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology  31(2):   407-446


If I get more information, I will pass it on.



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In the meantime, here are links to pdfs of the manuscript versions for two of the new papers:



Diego Castanera, Laura Piñuela & José Carlos García-Ramos (2016)
Grallator theropod tracks from the Late Jurassic of Asturias (Spain).
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology  31(2):  283-296
http://www.sepaleontologia.es/revista/files/1447428223.pdf

The MUJA (Museo del Jurásico de Asturias, Jurassic Museum of Asturias) has an interesting collection of theropod tracks that show similarities with the ichnogenera assigned to  the Eubrontes-Grallator plexus. In this paper we describe in detail the morphology of specimens recovered from different localities on the “Dinosaur Coast” of Asturias, plus four  specimens preserved in outcrops in the sea cliffs of Les Vinaes (Villaviciosa). All the specimens  are from the outcrops of the Lastres Formation, which is Kimmeridgian in age. The general morphology of the tracks, the footprint length-width ratio, the mesaxony, low divarication of the digits (II-IV) and the absence of hallux and metatarsophanlageal impressions suggest that the tracks are more similar to Grallator than to any other theropod ichnotaxa. Geometric morphometric analysis (principal component analysis, PCA) based on 2D landmark techniques  suggests that they differ from Kalohipus bretunensis (as yet the only Grallator-like ichnotaxon  described in the Iberian Peninsula) mainly in the divarication angles and in the projection of  digit III. 




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Miguel Moreno Azanza, José Manuel Gasca, Ignacio Díaz Martínez, Blanca Bauluz Lázaro, José Ignacio Canudo Sanagustín, Arturo Fernández & Félix Pérez-Lorente (2016)
A multi-ootaxic assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous of the Cameros Basin (La Rioja; Northern Spain). [Una asociación multi-ootáxica del Cretácico Inferior de la Cuenca de Cameros (La Rioja; Norte de España)]. 
Spanish Journal of Palaeontology 31(2):  305-320.
http://www.sepaleontologia.es/revista/files/1447618682.pdf


Here we describe El Horcajo, a new multiootaxic assemblage in the vicinity of Trevijano (La Rioja, Spain). It is located in the palustrine facies of the Enciso Group (Cameros Basin). This new locality has provided dozens of eggshell fragments, together with other vertebrate remains and charophyte fructifications, which allow dating of the locality as Valanginian-Hauterivian. Five ootaxa have being recognized: 1) the Spheroolithidae Guegoolithus turolensis; 2) a surprisingly thick Prismatoolithidae indet., with certain affinities to the oogenus Sankofa and which may represent a new oogenus and oospecies for this oofamily; 3) the Krokolithidae Krokolithes sp.; 4) recrystallized ?Testudoolithidae eggshells; and 5) ?Geckoolithidae eggshells of uncertain affinity. This oodiversity is similar to that of other eggshell microsites. The ootaxonomic list differs from the other Iberian locality of the same age, Pochancalo 1, Villanueva de Huerva Formation, in lacking sauropod and megalosaurid theropod eggshells, but shares the presence the ornithopod and coelurosaurian theropod eggshells with other younger microsites found in similar facies. These new locality has immediate consequences for the tectono-sedimentary framework of the Cameros Basin and the reliability of eggshells as biostratigraphic markers, as challenges both the age of the Enciso Group and the viability of Guegoolithus as a guide fossil for the lower Barremian. 


Blog post:

http://www.aragosaurus.com/?seccion=news_full&id=1665&titular=Saliendo%20del%20huevo%20al%20principio%20del%20Cret%C3%A1cico


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