Turiasauria

Turiasaurs
Temporal range: Middle Jurassic - Early Cretaceous, 168–125 Ma Possible Pliensbachian record[1]
Amanzia skeletal reconstruction, showing known material in blue
Moabosaurus, with an incorrect Camarasaurus like head
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Saurischia
Clade: †Sauropodomorpha
Clade: †Sauropoda
Clade: †Eusauropoda
Clade: †Turiasauria
Royo-Torres et al., 2006
Genera[6]
Synonyms
  • Turiasauridae

Turiasauria is an unranked clade of basal sauropod dinosaurs known from Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous deposits in Europe, North America, and Africa.

  1. ^ Milàn, J.; Mateus, O. (2024). "A Turiasaurian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) Tooth from the Pliensbachian Hasle Formation of Bornholm, Denmark, Shows an Early Jurassic Origin of the Turiasauria". Diversity. 16 (1): 12. doi:10.3390/d16010012. hdl:10362/172148.
  2. ^ Daniela Schwarz; Philip Mannion; Oliver Wings; Christian Meyer (2020). "Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia ("Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus") greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland". Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 113. doi:10.1186/s00015-020-00355-5.
  3. ^ a b c Archana Sharma, Sanjay Singh, Satheesh S R (May 2022). "The first turiasaurian sauropod of India reported from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) sediments of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 304 (2): 187-203. doi:10.1127/njgpa/2022/1064. S2CID 249030842.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ Rafael Royo-Torres; Alberto Cobos; Pedro Mocho; Luis Alcalá (2020). "Origin and evolution of turiasaur dinosaurs set by means of a new 'rosetta' specimen from Spain". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 191: 201–227. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa091.
  5. ^ Mannion PD. 2019. A turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the United Kingdom. PeerJ 7:e6348 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6348
  6. ^ Holtz, Thomas R. Jr. (2012) Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, Winter 2011 Appendix.