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New Evidence of Sauropod Dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic Period of Thailand
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This research is a part of first author dissertation. Some part of this study was present in the 2nd international symposium on Asian dinosaurs in Thailand 2015 (ISAD 2015). We would like to thank the Thai-French palaeontological team and all the people who helped us during field work. This work was supported by science achievement scholarship of Thailand (SAST), the National Research Council of Thailand (NRCT), the Thailand Research Fund (TRF) and the Palaeontological Research and Education Centre (PRC).

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    The oldest dinosaur assemblages of Thailand deposit in continental sedimentary rocks of the Nam Phong Formation. Not only Isanosaurus attavipatchi was discovered but at least two more species of basal sauropods were found. A partial skeleton from Phu Hin Tan locality refers to sauropod taxon A. It is different from Isanosaurus and shares some characteristics with basal sauropods in the Early Jurassic. The sauropod taxon B was found in Non Sra Ard locality. Base on postcranial skeleton, sauropod taxon B shares some characteristics of the family Vulcanodontidae. Moreover, several fragments of the sauropods specimen are also found in Pha Khok Wang Yang and Phu Noi localities. All of the evidences above indicate that there are a highly diversity of sauropods in the Nam Phong Formation. At least three sauropod species (including Isanosaurus) were found in the Nam Phong formation. The issue about the age of the Nam Phong has been debated for a long time between the Triassic and Jurassic age. All of sauropodomorphs, in this study, are more likely the Early Jurassic period dinosaurs than the Triassic period dinosaurs. And they have deposited in the upper part of Nam Phong Formation.

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LAOJUMPON Chalida, SUTEETHORN Varavudh, CHANTHASIT Phornphen, LAUPRASERT Komsorn, SUTEETHORN Suravech.2017. New Evidence of Sauropod Dinosaurs from the Early Jurassic Period of Thailand[J]. Acta Geologica Sinica(),91(4):1169-1178

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  • Received:November 16,2016
  • Revised:May 10,2017
  • Online: August 18,2017
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