A New Titanosaurian Braincase from the Cretaceous “Lo Hueco” Locality in Spain Sheds Light on Neuroanatomical Evolution within Titanosauria

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Knoll, Fabien, Witmer, Lawrence M., Ridgely, Ryan C., Ortega, Francisco, Sanz, Jose Luis
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science 2015
• Subjects: Research Article; Labyrinth; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4596832/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26444700; https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138233

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...