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Online ISSN : 2424-2632
Print ISSN : 0022-9202
ISSN-L : 0022-9202
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  • 中谷 大輔, 仲谷 英夫
    2023 年 113 巻 p. 5-16
    発行日: 2023/03/31
    公開日: 2023/04/14
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    Plesiosaur fossils are only scarcely known from the Upper Cretaceous of southwestern Japan. Here, we describe a plesiosaur fossil from the Upper Cretaceous Izumi Group of Kagawa Prefecture, southwestern Japan. The fossil is identified as the diaphysis of a left propodeal, and it belongs to an adult individual because the tuberosity or trochanter is differentiated from the capitulum (sense Brown, 1981). The preaxial margin is concave, and the tuberosity or trochanter is narrow and posteriorly located in dorsal view. This combination is observed in some specimens of the Elasmosauridae and Leptocleidia, but preservation of the described propodial is insufficient to identify even at the family level. Therefore, the specimen is identified as an indeterminate Xenopsaria, which is a clade that include the Elasmosauridae and Leptocleidia. Although fragmentary, the specimen is an important record as the first confirmed adult individual of a plesiosaur recorded in this area.
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