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Rapetosaurus krausei
Taxonomy
Rapetosaurus krausei was named by Curry Rogers and Forster (2001). Its type specimen is University of Antananarivo 8698 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is MAD96-02 (SUNY), which is in a Maastrichtian channel sandstone in the Maevarano Formation of Madagascar.
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Rapetosaurus krausei Curry Rogers and Forster |
| 2002 | Rapetosaurus krausei Wilson p. 275 |
| 2004 | Rapetosaurus krausei Upchurch et al. p. 270 |
| 2005 | Rapetosaurus krausei Apesteguía p. 336 |
| 2005 | Rapetosaurus krausei Curry Rogers p. 59 |
| 2005 | Rapetosaurus krausei Salgado and Coria p. 447 |
| 2006 | Rapetosaurus krausei Kellner et al. p. 2 |
| 2007 | Rapetosaurus krausei Castro et al. p. 199 |
| 2008 | Rapetosaurus krausei Allain and Aquesbi p. 400 |
| 2008 | Rapetosaurus krausei Filippi and Garrido p. 580 |
| 2009 | Rapetosaurus krausei González Riga et al. p. 141 |
| 2009 | Rapetosaurus krausei Salgado and Coria p. 12 |
| 2009 | Rapetosaurus krausei Wilson et al. pp. 35-36 |
| 2010 | Rapetosaurus krausei Alifanov and Bolotsky p. 89 |
| 2010 | Rapetosaurus krausei García and Cerda p. 48 |
| 2010 | Rapetosaurus krausei García et al. p. 410 |
| 2011 | Rapetosaurus krausei Díez Díaz et al. p. 521 |
| 2011 | Rapetosaurus krausei González Riga p. 283 |
| 2011 | Rapetosaurus krausei Grellet-Tinner et al. p. 625 |
| 2011 | Rapetosaurus krausei Marinho and Iori p. 344 |
| 2011 | Rapetosaurus krausi Taylor et al. p. 81 fig. 3 |
| 2012 | Rapetosaurus krausei Díez Díaz et al. p. 265 |
| 2012 | Rapetosaurus krausei Vila et al. p. 29 |
| 2014 | Rapetosaurus krausei Mocho et al. |
| 2015 | Rapetosaurus krausei Gallina and Apesteguía p. 1 |
| 2015 | Rapetosaurus krausei García et al. p. 39 |
| 2016 | Rapetosaurus krausei Lee p. 3 |
| 2016 | Rapetosaurus krausei Melstrom et al. p. 18 |
| 2017 | Rapetosaurus krausei Averianov and Sues p. 193 |
| 2017 | Rapetosaurus krausei Gorscak et al. p. 6 |
| 2017 | Rapetosaurus krausei Silva Junior et al. p. 20 |
| 2019 | Rapetosaurus krausei Wilson et al. p. 19 |
| 2020 | Rapetosaurus krausei Páramo et al. p. 394 |
| 2021 | Rapetosaurus krausei Díez Díaz et al. p. 3011 |
| 2021 | Rapetosaurus krausei Ren et al. p. 1877 |
| 2021 | Rapetosaurus krausei Rigby et al. p. 17 |
| 2022 | Rapetosaurus krausei Navarro et al. p. 335 |
| 2023 | Rapetosaurus krausei Poropat et al. p. 1 |
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†Rapetosaurus krausei Curry Rogers and Forster 2001
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| K. A. Curry Rogers and C. A. Forster 2001 | Rapetosaurus is characterized by the following autapomorphies: expanded antorbital fenestra extends over tooth row; preantorbital fenestra positioned posterior to antorbital fenestra; subnarial foramen anteriorly positioned and dorsoventrally elongate; jugal process of maxilla posterodorsally elongate and narrow; frontals with median dome; quadrate with V-shaped quadratojugal articulation; supraoccipital with two anteriorly directed median parietal processes; pterygoid with extremely shallow basipterygoid articulation and dorsoventrally expanded anterior process; basipterygoid processes diverge only at distal extremes; dentary with 11 alveoli that extend two-thirds the length of the element; gracile cylindrical teeth with high-angle planar wear facets; 16 cervical vertebrae with constricted neural canals and continuous pre- and postspinal coels devoid of pre- or postspinal laminae; cervical neural spines with proximal bifurcation and three pneumatized coels bounded by discrete laminae; 11 dorsal vertebrae with deep lateral pleurocoels; dorsal neural spines with strong pre- and postspinal laminae in deeply excavated anterior and posterior coels; dorsals with median interpre- and interpostzygapophyseal laminae; middle and posterior dorsals with divided spinodiapophyseal lamina; six sacral centra with deep lateral pleurocoels; all caudal centra procoelous with convex ventral margin lacking excavation; anterior caudal centra broad transversely and anteroposteriorly compressed; middle?posterior caudal centra with constant length:width ratio; anterior?middle caudal neural spines with spinoprezygapophyseal, prespinal and postspinal laminae on rectangular and anteriorly positioned neural arches; chevrons throughout 80% of tail; iliac peduncle of ischium comprises one-quarter of acetabulum; ischial peduncle of ilium low and poorly developed; pubis more than twice as long as ischium; scapula and coracoid with equal glenoid contribution; scapular blade not distally expanded; humerus/femur length quotient 0.80; radius and ulna with oblique interosseus ridges (Figs 1?3). |
Measurements
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| Source: infrao = infraorder | |||||
| Reference: Marsh 1875 | |||||
Age range: Maastrichtian or 72.10000 to 66.00000 Ma
Collections (5 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
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| Late/Upper Cretaceous | Madagascar (Mahajanga) | Rapetosaurus krausei (232462) | |
| Maastrichtian | Madagascar (Mahajanga) | Rapetosaurus krausei (25074 type locality: 39074 144728 206553) |