The earliest known sauropod dinosaur

Eric Buffetaut (), Varavudh Suteethorn, Gilles Cuny, Haiyan Tong, Jean Le Loeuff, Sasidhorn Khansubha and Sutee Jongautchariyakul
Additional contact information
Eric Buffetaut: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Varavudh Suteethorn: Geological Survey Division, Department of Mineral Resources
Gilles Cuny: University of Bristol
Haiyan Tong: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Jean Le Loeuff: Musée des Dinosaures
Sasidhorn Khansubha: Geological Survey Division, Department of Mineral Resources
Sutee Jongautchariyakul: Geological Survey Division, Department of Mineral Resources

Nature, 2000, vol. 407, issue 6800, 72-74

Abstract: Abstract Sauropods were a very successful group of dinosaurs during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, but their earlier history is poorly known. Until now, the earliest reported sauropod bones were from the Early Jurassic1,2,3, and the only tentative evidence of earlier sauropods was in the form of controversial footprints4,5. Here we report the discovery of an incomplete sauropod skeleton from the Late Triassic period of Thailand, which provides the first osteological evidence of pre-Jurassic sauropods. This dinosaur is markedly different from prosauropods and substantiates theoretical predictions that there was a fairly long period of sauropod evolution during the Triassic.

Date: 2000
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.nature.com/articles/35024060 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:nat:nature:v:407:y:2000:i:6800:d:10.1038_35024060

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.nature.com/

DOI: 10.1038/35024060

Access Statistics for this article

Nature is currently edited by Magdalena Skipper

More articles in Nature from Nature
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().