Title
Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, a new primitive ceratopsian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Cretaceous of Mongolia
Title Variants
Alternative:
New Mongolian neoceratopsian
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 3530
By
Makovicky, Peter J.
Norell, Mark A.
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2006
Notes
Title from caption.
"September 8, 2006."
Some specimens collected during the 1991 field season of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences-American Museum of Natural History joint expeditions.
"A new basal neoceratopsian taxon from the eastern Gobi Desert is described. Yamaceratops dorngobiensis, tax. nov., is probably of late Early Cretaceous age, and occupies a phylogenetic position intermediate between Liaoceratops and Archaeoceratops. It is the most basal taxon to display a number of traditional neoceratopsian synapomorphies concentrated in the cheek region and mandible. These include presence of an epijugal, lateral displacement of the coronoid process, a lateral ridge on the surangular for insertion of the jaw adductors, and a lateral wall to the mandibular glenoid. Yamaceratops shares two synapomorphies (tubercles on the ventral edge of the angular and shape of the jugal) with Liaoceratops, indicating that the transient presence of derived characters may be prevalent in the early evolutionary history of Ceratopsia. Yamaceratops shares aspects of frill morphology with Liaoceratops and Leptoceratops that suggest a function unrelated to display for this anatomical structure in basal neoceratopsians, and hints at a more complex evolutionary history for ceratopsian frills. Considerations of patristic distances and mosaic evolution among basal neoceratopsian taxa indicate that a greater diversity of these animals remains undiscovered"--P. [1].
Subjects
Ceratopsidae
,
Cretaceous
,
Dinosaurs
,
Dornogovʹ Aĭmag
,
Evolution
,
Mongolia
,
Paleontology
,
Phylogeny
,
Reptiles, Fossil
,
Yamaceratops dorngobiensis
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.3530, 2006
Language
English
Identifiers
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3530[1:YDANPC]2.0.CO;2
OCLC:
71314202
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