NO. 14 A NEW SAUROPOD DINOSAUR GILMORE 9 



JMontague Noire in France and from the Cretaceous formation of 

 Argentina, and perhaps also from East Africa, has nothing to do with 

 the Sauropoda, but belongs to the Trachodontid Orthopoda, as proved 

 by the abundant Transylvanian material at my disposal." He then 

 goes on to point out that these dinosaurs referred to Titanosaurus 

 are generically identical with Telmatosaurus, a heavily built Tracho- 

 dontid animal from Transylvania, of which the structure is largely 

 known from undescribed material, the name Titanosaurus being 

 applicable only to the English Wealden Sauropod described in 1887." 



4. In 1907, Thevenin " described certain fossils from Madagascar 

 that were referred to the Sauropod genera B othriospondylus and 

 Titanosaurus. These are Cenomanian in age. 



5. In 1907, Dr. E. PVass made the interesting discovery of Sauropod 

 dinosaurs in southern German East Africa. These were at first 

 thought to be of Upper Cretaceous origin, but since it now appears to 

 be universally recognized that these animals are from the Lower 

 Cretaceous and Upper Jurassic, they may be dismissed from further 

 consideration in the present connection.'' 



6. Dr. W. D. Matthew, in a recent letter, informs me that Stromer 

 has some fine Sauropod material as yet undescribed, " with that 

 extraordinary Spinosaurus^ from the Upper Cretaceous of Baharich 

 Oasis, Egypt." According" to Stromer these are Cenomanian-Albian 

 in age. 



From this brief review of the reported finds of Sauropod remains 

 of Cenomanian age or above, it will be seen that much doubt exists 

 either as to their proper identification or to their exact geological 

 position. In the light of this more recent discovery, under conditions 

 that permit hardly a question of doubt to be raised as to either identity 

 or stratigraphic position, it would appear very probable that a critical 

 re-examination of the evidence would show the original determination 

 of some of these finds to be valid in all respects. That Sauropod 

 dinosaurs continued to exist until after the Cenomanian, and even 

 into the Danian, there is every reason to believe. 



^ In this Nopcsa is mistaken for the name would certainly be applicable to 

 the genotype which is the specimen from India described by Lydekker in 1877 

 and again reviewed in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of 

 London, p. 156, in connection with the Wealden Sauropod cited by Nopcsa. 

 It is also of interest to note that Seeley, in the same article, p. 160, regarded 

 the specimens from India as being insufficient for purposes of identification, 

 or to enable the relations of the animal to be determined. 



^ Annales de Paleontologie, 1907. 



' See Schuchert, Bull. Geol. Soc. America, vol. 29, No. 2, 1918, p. 264, for 

 citations of articles and discussion of the age of the Tendagura series. 



* Abh. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Nov., 1915. 



