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Barapasaurus tagorei
Taxonomy
Barapasaurus tagorei was named by Jain et al. (1975). Its type specimen is ISI R.50, a partial skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is Pochampalli (ISI), which is in a Sinemurian/Pliensbachian terrestrial sandstone/limestone in the Kota Formation of India. It is the type species of Barapasaurus.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1975 | Barapasaurus tagorei Jain et al. |
| 1977 | Barapasaurus tagorei Rozhdestvensky p. 113 |
| 1977 | Barapasaurus tagorei Taquet p. 328 |
| 1979 | Barapasaurus tagorei Jain et al. p. 204 |
| 1980 | Barapasaurus tagorei Jain p. 111 |
| 1986 | Barapasaurus tagorei Bonaparte p. 251 |
| 1988 | Barapasaurus tagorei Bandyopadhyay p. 110 |
| 1989 | Barapasaurus tagorei Jain p. 101 |
| 1990 | Barapasaurus tagorei McIntosh p. 346 |
| 1993 | Barapasaurus tagorei Yadagiri p. 214 |
| 1995 | Barapasaurus tagorei Calvo and Salgado p. 30 fig. 18 |
| 1996 | Barapasaurus tagorei Loyal et al. p. 628 |
| 1996 | Baraposaurus tagori Mohabey and Udhoji p. 358 |
| 1997 | Barapasaurus tagorei Sahni p. 363 |
| 1997 | Barapasaurus tagorei Salgado et al. p. 5 |
| 1998 | Barapasaurus tagorei Dong p. 82 |
| 1998 | Barapasaurus tagorei Wilson and Sereno p. 15 |
| 1999 | Barapasaurus tagorei Bandyopadhyay p. 311 |
| 2001 | Barapasaurus tagorei Mohabey p. 480 |
| 2002 | Barapasaurus tagorei Wilson p. 271 |
| 2003 | Barapasaurus tagorei Bandyopadhyay et al. p. 31A |
| 2004 | Barapasaurus tagorei Upchurch et al. p. 263 |
| 2005 | Barapasaurus tagorei Apesteguía p. 249 |
| 2006 | Barapasaurus tagorei Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta p. 79 |
| 2006 | Barapasaurus tagorei Moser et al. p. 35 |
| 2007 | Barapasaurus tagorei Upchurch et al. p. 75 |
| 2010 | Barapasaurus tagorei Bandyopadhyay et al. p. 541 |
| 2011 | Barapasaurus tagori Mohabey p. 131 |
| 2014 | Barapasaurus tagorei Mocho et al. |
| 2019 | Barapasaurus tagorei Galton p. 209 |
| 2020 | Barapasaurus tagorei Moro et al. |
| 2020 | Barapasaurus tagorei Prasad and Parmar p. 1 |
| 2021 | Barapasaurus tagorei Holwerda et al. p. 576 |
| 2021 | Barapasaurus tagorei Khosla and Bajpai p. 195 |
| 2021 | Barapasaurus tagorei Ren et al. p. 1875 |
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†Barapasaurus tagorei Jain et al. 1975
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| S. Bandyopadhyay et al. 2010 | Large sauropod with slender limbs; teeth spoon-shaped with bulbous base and with grooves on anterolabial and posterolingual sides of the crown; coarse tubercles mostly on posterior carina; cervical and cranial dorsal vertebrae opisthocoelous while others platycoelous; primitive acamerate vertebrae morphology in cervical and cranial dorsal vertebrae; intraprezygapophyseal laminae joined the prezygapophyses on the midline at the dorsal margin of the neural canal in the caudal cervicals; hyposphene-hypantrum articulation well-developed in middle and caudal dorsal vertebrae; lateral laminae of the middle and caudal dorsal neural spines composed of spinodiapophyseal and spinopostzygapophyseal laminae; dorsal neural spines flattened craniocaudally but wide transversely; neural canal in the mid-dorsal vertebrae open dorsally through a narrow slit-like opening into a large cavity; sacrum with four co-ossified vertebrae; sacral centra hour glass-shaped and amphiplatyan; sacral neural spines high; sacricostal yoke set close together; distal caudals spool-shaped with caudally inclined neural spine; y-shaped chevrons with fused cranial and caudal projections; scapula with tall narrow blade; coracoid subcircular with coracoid foramen; humerus with prominent deltopectoral crest, expanded at both ends; ulna with triradiate proximal end stouter than radius but slender in shaft; ilium with prominent preacetabular process; medial wall of acetabulum quite deep; ischiadic peduncle of ilium short, while pubic peduncle long and directed downward and a little cranially; pubis and ischium almost of same length; pubis with a large obturator foramen and the pubic apron articulated with its partner along nearly the full length of the midline resulting a narrow pelvic basin; ischium slender, straight and distally moderately expanded; the symphyseal contact narrow; femur long and slender with hemispherical femur head set at right angle to the straight, slender shaft; well-developed fourth trochanter projecting caudally a ridge-like process with an acuminate and declined tip; short, robust tibia with well-developed cnemial crest; fibula slender with weakly developed lateral trochanter; tibia articulating with prominently raised elliptical rugosity on the lateral side of the fibula; subtriangular astragalus bearing proximally a prominent ascending process and a medial depression; calcaneum quadrangular but proximally semi-trapezoidal; distal articular surface for the metatarsals with a fine mediolateral ridge. |
Measurements
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| Source: g = genus, infrao = infraorder | |||||
| References: Peczkis 1995, Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: base of the Sinemurian to the top of the Pliensbachian or 199.30000 to 182.70000 Ma
Collections (2 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sinemurian - Pliensbachian | India (Andhra Pradesh) | Barapasaurus tagorei (97447) | |
| Sinemurian - Pliensbachian | India (Maharashtra) | Barapasaurus tagorei (type locality: 35268) |