A juvenile specimen of a new coelurosaur (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the Middle–Late Jurassic Shishugou Formation of Xinjiang, People's Republic of China
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Abstract
Jonah N. Choiniereabg*, James M. Clarkb, Catherine A. Forsterb, Mark A. Norella, David A. Eberthd, Gregory M. Ericksone, Hongjun Chuc & Xing Xufa Division of Paleontology and Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USAb Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, USA, DCc Bureau of Forestry, Altai, PR Chinad Sedimentary Geology and Palaeoecology Research, Royal Tyrell Museum, Canada, Albertae Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USAf Key Laboratory for the Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR Chinag †Evolutionary Studies Institute, Center of Excellence in Palaeosciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa* Corresponding author. Email: jonah.choiniere@wits.ac.zaWe describe the anatomy of a new coelurosaurian theropod Aorun zhaoi gen. et sp. nov., from the Middle–Late Jurassic of Xinjiang, China. Histological analysis of the holotype and only known specimen shows that the new taxon is represented by the skeleton of a juvenile individual aged no more than one year. A phylogenetic analysis of theropod relationships places Aorun as a basal member of the Coelurosauria. Although the sole use of a sub-adult ontogenetic exemplar is potentially problematic for phylogenetic reconstruction, we show that the phylogenetic position of Aorun as a member of Coelurosauria is robust to the exclusion of characters known to change during theropod ontogeny. Aorun is the seventh theropod taxon, and temporally oldest coelurosaur, known from the Shishugou Formation, which has one of the most taxonomically diverse Jurassic coelurosaurian theropod faunas in the world.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5CC73577-9EB3-47AB-9983-1677B278EFFD
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Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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