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The holotype individual of the ornithopod dinosaur Leaellynasaura amicagraphica Rich Rich, 1989 (late Early Cretaceous, Victoria, Australia)

Journal

ALCHERINGA
Volume 34, Issue 3, Pages 385-396

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2010.489404

Keywords

Cretaceous; Dinosauria; distortion; high latitude; holotype; Leaellynasaura; Ornithopoda; taphonomy; taxonomy

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  1. Committee for Research and Exploration of the National Geographic Society
  2. Australian Research Council
  3. Atlas Copco

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Doubt has been cast upon the association of the skull roof and postcranial bones, originally regarded as part of the same individual as the holotype, the left side of the skull, of Leaellynasaura amicagraphica Rich Rich 1989. The reasons given for these doubts, the form of the prefrontal and the proportions of the supratemporal region being inconsistent with the holotype, are imprecise. The association is supported both by the morphology of the parietal and jugal, which are similar to those of Dryosaurus, and the unique sedimentological setting.

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