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4 June 2021 First Osteological Record of a Stegosaur (Dinosauria, ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of South America
Oliver W. M. Rauhut, José Luis Carballido, Diego Pol
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Abstract

A stegosaurian humerus from the Oxfordian–Tithonian(?) Cañadón Calcáreo Formation of Chubut, Argentina, extends the fossil record of this clade of thyreophoran ornithischian dinosaurs to the Upper Jurassic of South America. The element shares the derived character of an oblique ridge extending from the deltopectoral crest towards the medial distal condyle with taxa such as Kentrosaurus and Stegosaurus and thus represents a derived representative of the clade. The presence of stegosaurs in the Cañadón Calcáreo Formation underlines the similarities of its dinosaur fauna with other Late Jurassic dinosaur faunas, such as the Morrison Formation of North America or the Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania, in at least broad systematic terms.

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Oliver W. M. Rauhut, José Luis Carballido, and Diego Pol "First Osteological Record of a Stegosaur (Dinosauria, ornithischia) from the Upper Jurassic of South America," Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 40(6), (4 June 2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2020.1862133
Received: 26 March 2020; Accepted: 9 September 2020; Published: 4 June 2021
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