Archivo: Jianchangosaurus

Descripción: A, Reconstruction the skeleton of Jianchangosaurus yixianensis gen. et sp. nov. The hip height is approximately 1 meter. show more It is 1880 mm long from the skull to the eleventh caudal vertebra. B, Reconstruction of the skull. The ventral lacrimal, postorbital, posterior jugal, anterior edge of the quadrate, anterior surangular are missing. A rhamphotheca is reconstructed in grey based on edentulous area and a series of foramina. C, Cross section of the right upper and lower jaws, showing dental arrangement and rhamphotheca. Anterior portion (right) may have been used for plucking food by a rhamphotheca in the upper jaw and anterior dentary teeth with the normal dental morphology (convex labial and concave lingual surfaces). Posterior portion (left) shows the opposite dental morphology (concave labial and convex lingual surfaces) in the dentary, which allows the tips of the upper and lower teeth to abut each other. Abbreviations: an, angular; d, dentary; f, frontal; j, jugal; l, lacrimal; lat, lateral; m, maxilla; med, medial; n, nasal; pf, prefrontal; pm, premaxilla; q, quadrate; rham, rhamphotheca; sa, surangular; sq, squamosal.
Título: Jianchangosaurus
Créditos: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0063423
Autor(a): Hanyong Pu, Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, Junchang Lü, Li Xu, Yanhua Wu, Huali Chang, Jiming Zhang, Songhai Jia
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