Late Carboniferous to Early Permian brachiopod faunas from the Bachu and Kalpin areas,Tarim Basin,NW China |
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| Authors: | ZQ Chen GR SHI |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Ecology and Environment , Deakin University , Rusden Campus, 662 Blackburn Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia E-mail: grshi@deakin.edu.au;2. Institute of Geology and Palaeontology , Tohoku University , Aoba, Aramaki, Sendai, 98-8578, Japan E-mail: zqchen@dges.tohoku.ac.jp;3. School of Ecology and Environment , Deakin University , Rusden Campus, 662 Blackburn Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia E-mail: grshi@deakin.edu.au |
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| Abstract: | Terrestrial reptile remains are very rare in the Lower Cretaceous of South Australia, but include the holotype of the small theropod Kakuru. Here, we review this taxon and other archosaur specimens collected from the Bulldog Shale (Aptian) of Andamooka and Coober Pedy. Kakuru possesses no unique characters or character state combinations and is regarded as a nomen dubium, representing an indeterminate tetanuran theropod. Two other specimens (a left metatarsal and astragalus) can be referred to Dinosauria, but the identity of several other specimens (phalanges and a centrum) can only be resolved to the level of an indeterminate archosaur. |
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| Keywords: | Brachiopods Late Carboniferous Early Permian Tarim Basin NW China |
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