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Turiasauria

Royo-Torres et al. 2006

Les Turiasauria forment un clade fossile de rang non défini composé de grands dinosaures sauropodes herbivores primitifs ayant vécu en Europe au Jurassique supérieur et en Amérique du Nord au Crétacé inférieur où ils ont trouvé « refuge ».

Plage temporelle
Trias
Jurassique
Crétacé
Paléogène
Néogène
252 201 145 66 0 Ma
Occurrences PBDB
40
Groupe
Dinosaures
Herbivore Vivant au sol, grégaire Terrestre
Turiasauria
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Classification
Dinosauria Clade non classé
Saurischia Clade non classé
Sauropodomorpha Clade non classé
Massopoda Clade non classé
Sauropodiformes Clade non classé
Sauropoda Clade non classé
Gravisauria Clade non classé
Eusauropoda Clade non classé
Turiasauria Clade non classé
Sites de découverte 40 sites géolocalisés
Répartition
Principaux pays
🇵🇹 Portugal
16
🇪🇸 Espagne
8
🇺🇸 États-Unis
3
🇮🇳 Inde
2
🇨🇭 Suisse
2
🇹🇿 Tanzanie
2
🇩🇰 Danemark
1
🇦🇷 Argentine
1
🇲🇬 Madagascar
1
🇫🇷 France
1
Formations géologiques
Praia da Amoreira-Porto Novo
5
Jaisalmer
2
Hasle
1
Cañadón Asfalto
1
Distribution temporelle
Hauterivien (132.6–125.77 Ma)
2
Valanginien (137.05–132.6 Ma)
3
Berriasien (143.1–137.05 Ma)
2
Tithonien (149.2–143.1 Ma)
15
Kimméridgien (154.8–149.2 Ma)
13
Bathonien (168.2–165.3 Ma)
3
Toarcien (184.2–174.7 Ma)
1
Pliensbachien (192.9–184.2 Ma)
1
Bibliographie
Description originale
R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, and L. Alcalá. 2006. A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade. Science 314:1925-1927 DOI ↗
Bibliographie (22)
T. Ghosh, M. T. Carrano, and A. M. Jukar, E. L. Stanley, K. Kumar, S. Bajpai. 2026. A new turiasaur (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) specimen from the Middle Jurassic of India. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology DOI ↗
A. Saleiro and E. Tschopp. 2025. New sauropod teeth from the Upper Jurassic of Portugal and their implications for sauropod dental evolution. Papers in Palaeontology 11(1):e70001:1-36 DOI ↗
J. Milàn and O. Mateus. 2024. A Turiasaurian (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) Tooth from the Pliensbachian Hasle Formation of Bornholm, Denmark, Shows an Early Jurassic Origin of the Turiasauria. Diversity 16:12:1-10 DOI ↗
A. Sharma, S. Singh, and S. R. Satheesh. 2022. The first turiasaurian sauropod of India reported from the Middle Jurassic (Bathonian) sediments of Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan, India. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Abhandlungen 304(2):187-203 DOI ↗
R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, and P. Mocho, L. Alcalá. 2021. Origin and evolution of turiasaur dinosaurs set by means of a new ‘rosetta’ specimen from Spain. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 191(1):201-227 DOI ↗
L. Rozada, R. Allain, and R. Vullo, J. Goedert, D. Augier, A. Jean, J. Marchal, C. Peyre de Fabrègues, M. Qvarnström, R. Royo-Torres. 2020. A Lower Cretaceous Lagerstätte from France: a taphonomic overview of the Angeac‐Charente vertebrate assemblage. Lethaia 54:141-165 DOI ↗
D. Schwarz, P. D. Mannion, and O. Wings, C. A. Meyer. 2020. Re-description of the sauropod dinosaur Amanzia (“Ornithopsis/Cetiosauriscus”) greppini n. gen. and other vertebrate remains from the Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) Reuchenette Formation of Moutier, Switzerland. Swiss Journal of Geosciences 113:2:1-48 DOI ↗
P. D. Mannion. 2019. A turiasaurian sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the United Kingdom. PeerJ 7:e6348:1-14 DOI ↗
P. D. Mannion, P. Upchurch, and D. Schwarz, O. Wings. 2019. Taxonomic affinities of the putative titanosaurs from the Late Jurassic Tendaguru Formation of Tanzania: phylogenetic and biogeographic implications for eusauropod dinosaur evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 185(3):784-909 DOI ↗
C. Ribeiro and O. Mateus. 2018. Stratigraphic position of the Late Jurassic tetrapods from Porto Dinheiro (Lourinhã, Portugal). 1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress DOI ↗
B. B. Britt, R. D. Scheetz, and M. F. Whiting, D. R. Wilhite. 2017. Moabosaurus utahensis, n. gen., n. sp., a new sauropod from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian) of North America. Contributions from the Museum of Paleontology, University of Michigan 32(11):189-243
P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, and F. Escaso, E. Malafaia, C. d. M. Chaves, I. Narváez, A. Pérez-García, N. Pimentel, B. C. Silva, F. Ortega. 2017. Upper Jurassic sauropod record in the Lusitanian Basin (Portugal): geographical and lithostratigraphical distribution. Palaeontologia Electronica 20(2):27A:1-50 DOI ↗
R. Royo-Torres, P. Upchurch, and J. I. Kirkland, D. D. DeBlieux, J. R. Foster, A. Cobos, L. Alcalá. 2017. Descendants of the Jurassic turiasaurs from Iberia found refuge in the Early Cretaceous of western USA. Scientific Reports 7:14311:1-12 DOI ↗
P. Mocho, R. Royo-Torres, and E. Malafaia, F. Escaso, F. Ortega. 2016. Systematic review of Late Jurassic sauropods from the Museu Geológico collections (Lisboa, Portugal). Journal of Iberian Geology 42(2):227-250 DOI ↗
O. Mateus, P. D. Mannion, and P. Upchurch. 2014. Zby atlanticus, a new turiasaurian sauropod (Dinosauria, Eusauropoda) from the Late Jurassic of Portugal. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 34(3):618-634 DOI ↗
L. Alcalá, L. Luque, and A. Aberasturi, D. Ayala, A. Cobos, E. Espílez, F. Gascó, A. González, L. Mampel, R. Royo-Torres. 2010. El dinosaurio gigante de Riodeva: nacido para enseñar [Riodeva’s giant dinosaur: born to teach]. Enseñanza de las Ciencias de la Tierra 18(1):97-106
F. Ortega, R. Royo Torres, and F. Gascó, F. Escaso, J. L. Sanz. 2010. New evidences of the sauropod Turiasaurus from the Portuguese Upper Jurassic. 8th Meeting of the European Association of Vertebrate Palaeontologists. Abstract Volume
R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, and L. Alcalá. 2008. Primeros restos directos de dinosaurios en la Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel) [First direct remains of dinosaurs in the Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel)]. In J. I. Ruiz-Omeñaca, L. Piñuela and J. C. García-Ramos (eds), XXIV Jornadas de la Sociedad Española de Paleontología, 15-18 October 2008, Museo del Jurásico de Asturias (MUJA), Colunga, Spain, Libro de Resúmenes
R. Royo-Torres, A. Cobos, and L. Alcalá. 2006. A giant European dinosaur and a new sauropod clade. Science 314:1925-1927 DOI ↗
M. L. Casanovas, J. V. Santafé, and J. L. Sanz. 2001. Losillasaurus giganteus, un nuevo saurópodo del tránsito Jurásico-Cretácico de la cuenca de "Los Serranos" (Valencia, España) [Losillasaurus giganteus, a new sauropod from the Jurassic-Cretaceous transition of the "Los Serranos" basin (Valencia, Spain)]. Paleontologia i Evolucio 32-33:99-122
J. F. Bonaparte, W.-D. Heinrich, and R. Wild. 2000. Review of Janenschia Wild, with the description of a new sauropod from the Tendaguru beds of Tanzania and a discussion on the systematic value of procoelous caudal vertebrae in the Sauropoda. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 256(1-3):25-76 DOI ↗
F. v. Huene. 1922. Ueber einem Sauropoden im obern Malm des Berner Jura [On a sauropod in the upper Malm of the Bernese Jura]. Eclogae Geologicae Helveticae 17:80-94