Data from: A new titanosaurian braincase from the Cretaceous “Lo Hueco” locality in Spain sheds light on neuroanatomical evolution within Titanosauria ...
Despite continuous improvements, our knowledge of the neurocranial anatomy of sauropod dinosaurs as a whole is still poor, which is especially true for titanosaurians even though their postcranial remains are common in many Upper Cretaceous sites worldwide. Here we describe a braincase from the uppe...
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Dryad
2016
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dg027 https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.dg027 |
| Summary: | Despite continuous improvements, our knowledge of the neurocranial anatomy of sauropod dinosaurs as a whole is still poor, which is especially true for titanosaurians even though their postcranial remains are common in many Upper Cretaceous sites worldwide. Here we describe a braincase from the uppermost Cretaceous locality of ‘‘Lo Hueco” in Spain that is one of the most complete titanosaurian braincases found so far in Europe. Although the titanosaurian Ampelosaurus sp. is known from the same locality, this specimen is clearly a distinct taxon and presents a number of occipital characters found in Antarctosaurus and Jainosaurus, which are approximately coeval taxa from southern Gondwana. The specimen was subjected to X-ray computed tomographic (CT) scanning, allowing the generation of 3D renderings of the endocranial cavity enclosing the brain, cranial nerves, and blood vessels, as well as the labyrinth of the inner ear. These findings add considerable knowledge to the field of sauropod paleoneuroanatomy in ... : CT scan data (DICOM) for Spanish titanosaur braincase (MCCM-HUE-1667)CT scan data (DICOM) for Spanish titanosaur braincase (MCCM-HUE-1667). This specimen was collected from the Villalba de la Sierra Formation at a locality named “Lo Hueco,” near the village of Fuentes, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. Cretaceous (late Campanian-early Maastrichtian). The specimen was scanned on an Yxlon CT Compact (Yxlon International, Hamburg, Germany) with a voltage of 180 kV and a current of 2.8 mA. The in-plane pixel size was 0.18 mm, with an inter-slice spacing of 0.20 mm.Spanish_titanosaur_MCCM-HUE-1667_DICOM.zip ... |
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