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PLOS ONE
Volume 8, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0080405
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- Direccion General de Patrimonio Cultural [201/2010, 201/10-2011, 201/10-11-2011]
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CGL2009-07792]
- FEDER Funds [CGL2009-07792]
- FOCONTUR (Grupo de Investigacion Consolidado E-62, Departamento de Industria e Innovacion Ciencia, Tecnologia y Universidad, Gobierno de Aragon)
- Instituto Aragones de Fomento, Fundacion SAMCA
- Fundacion Conjunto Paleontologico de Teruel-Dinopolis
- Craig Wilkerson through the Utah Friends of Paleontology
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Nodosaurids are poorly known from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe. Two associated ankylosaur skeletons excavated from the lower Albian carbonaceous member of the Escucha Formation near Arino in northeastern Teruel, Spain reveal nearly all the diagnostic recognized character that define nodosaurid ankylosaurs. These new specimens comprise a new genus and species of nodosaurid ankylosaur and represent the single most complete taxon of ankylosaur from the Cretaceous of Europe. These two specimens were examined and compared to all other known ankylosaurs. Comparisons of these specimens document that Europelta carbonensis n. gen., n. sp. is a nodosaur and is the sister taxon to the Late Cretaceous nodosaurids Anoplosaurus, Hungarosaurus, and Struthiosaurus, defining a monophyletic clade of European nodosaurids- the Struthiosaurinae.
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