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Tharosaurus indicus
Taxonomy
Tharosaurus indicus was named by Bajpai et al. (2023). Its type specimen is RWR-241(A–K), a set of vertebrae (partial middle/posterior cervical vertebra; middle/posterior cervical anterior con- dyle and right prezygapophyses; partial anterior dorsal neural arch; middle/), and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Jethwai village, which is in a Bathonian basin reef lime mudstone in the Jaisalmer Formation of India. It is the type species of Tharosaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 2023 | Tharosaurus indicus Bajpai et al. pp. 1-2 fig. 2–5 |
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†Tharosaurus indicus Bajpai et al. 2023
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
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| S. Bajpai et al. 2023 | Tharosaurus exhibits a unique combination of the following characters: middle/posterior cervical centroprezygapophyseal lamina divided into lateral and medial branches, the latter connecting with the intraprezygapophyseal lamina (shared with all dicraeosaurids); middle/posterior cervical centropostzygapophyseal fossa elliptical and bordered laterally by pillar-like centropostzygapophyseal lamina (shared with the dicraeosaurids Lingwulong, Brachytrachelopan, and Pilmatueia); deep bifurcation of cervical neural arch extending up to the dorsal margin of the neural canal (shared with the dicraeosaurids Amargasaurus and Pilmatueia); paired fossae on the ventral surface of the middle/posterior cervical centrum separated by a mid-line keel (shared with all dicraeosaurids, barring Smitanosaurus, Kaatedocus and Suuwassea, and the diplodocids—Barosaurus and Dinheirosaurus); paired ventral fossae extending up to the posterior margin of centrum; anterior condyle of middle/posterior cervical more rugose compared to the rest of the centrum (shared with the dicraeosaurid Kaatedocus); bifid middle/posterior cervical neural spine (shared with Flagellicaudata); divided lateral fossa/ pleuroceol on cervical centra (shared with Flagellicaudata); lateral fossa divided into deep posterior and shallow anterior half by weak ridge on the ventral surface of the fossa; prominent lateroventral flanges on middle/posterior cervical centrum (shared with Flagellicaudata); middle/posterior cervical vertebrae with pre-epipophysis (shared with Flagellicaudata); cordiform cross-section of anterior caudal centra (shared with Flagellicaudata); middle/posterior dorsal transverse process laterally directed (shared with Diplodocidae); middle caudal centra articular surface with flat ventral margin (shared with Diplodocoidea); ventral surface of mid-caudal centrum with deep median fossa.
Autapomorphies: triangular ventrolateral projections lying below posterior cotyle of middle/posterior cervical centrum visible in posterior view; ventral mid-line keel on middle/posterior cervical centrum bifurcating posteriorly but not meeting the lateroventral flanges; lateral pleuroceol on anterior caudal centra. |
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| Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||