Elasmaria

Extinct clade of dinosaurs

Elasmarians
Temporal range: Cretaceous, 127–66 Ma
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Dinosauria
Clade: Ornithischia
Clade: Neornithischia
Clade: Ornithopoda
Clade: Elasmaria
Calvo, Porfiri, and Novas, 2007
Genera

Elasmaria is a clade of ornithopods known from Cretaceous deposits in South America, Antarctica, and Australia that contains many bipedal ornithopods that were previously considered "hypsilophodonts".[1][2]

Classification

Calvo et al. (2007) coined Elasmaria to accommodate Macrogryphosaurus and Talenkauen, which they recovered as basal iguanodonts distinct from other iguanodontians in having mineralized plates on the ribs.[3] In 2016, a paper describing the genus Morrosaurus found Elasmaria to be far larger than its initial contents of two taxa, instead containing a variety of ornithopods from the Southern Hemisphere.[4] In 2021, under the Phylocode, Madzia et al. (2021) formally defined Elasmaria as "the smallest clade containing Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus and Talenkauen santacrucensis, provided that it does not include Hypsilophodon foxii, Iguanodon bernissartensis, or Thescelosaurus neglectus.[5] Fonseca et al. (2024) redefined Elasmaria as "the largest clade containing Macrogryphosaurus gondwanicus and Talenkauen santacrucensis but not Dryosaurus altus, Hypsilophodon foxii, Iguanodon bernissartensis, and Thescelosaurus neglectus" so that it included more related taxa. The cladogram below follows their preferred reference phylogeny, taken from the results of their own study.[6]

Ornithopoda
Hypsilophodontidae
Iguanodontia

Rhabdodontomorpha

Euiguanodontia

Callovosaurus leedsi

Dryomorpha
Elasmaria

References

  1. ^ Boyd CA. (2015) The systematic relationships and biogeographic history of ornithischian dinosaurs. PeerJ 3:e1523 https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1523
  2. ^ Madzia, Daniel; Boyd, Clint A.; Mazuch, Martin (2017). "A basal ornithopod dinosaur from the Cenomanian of the Czech Republic". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: 1–13. doi:10.1080/14772019.2017.1371258.
  3. ^ Calvo, Jorge O.; Porfiri, Juan D.; Novas, Fernando E. (2007). "Discovery of a new ornithopod dinosaur from the Portezuelo formation (Upper Cretaceous), Neuquen, Patagonia, Argentina". Arquivos do Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. 65 (4): 471–483.
  4. ^ Rozadilla, Sebastián; Agnolin, Federico L.; Novas, Novas; Rolando, Alexis M.Aranciaga; Motta, Matías J.; Lirio, Juan M.; Isasi, Marcelo P. (2016). "A new ornithopod (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous of Antarctica and its palaeobiogeographical implications". Cretaceous Research. 57: 311–324. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2015.09.009.
  5. ^ Madzia, Daniel; Arbour, Victoria M.; Boyd, Clint A.; Farke, Andrew A.; Cruzado-Caballero, Penélope; Evans, David C. (2021-12-09). "The phylogenetic nomenclature of ornithischian dinosaurs". PeerJ. 9: e12362. doi:10.7717/peerj.12362. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 8667728. PMID 34966571.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  6. ^ Fonseca, André O.; Reid, Iain J.; Venner, Alexander; Duncan, Ruairidh J.; Garcia, Mauricio S.; Müller, Rodrigo T. (2024-12-31). "A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis on early ornithischian evolution". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 22 (1). doi:10.1080/14772019.2024.2346577. ISSN 1477-2019.
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