[D] Galveosaurus herreroi [sG] [T]
Describer
Sánchez-Hernández, 2005
Time
Jurassic Late Cretaceous Early Tithonian Berriasian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Turiasauria
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Galve, Teruel Province, Spain
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Represented by two humeri, one sternal plate, one ischium, one scapula, one cervical vertebra, one caudal dorsal vertebra, five caudal vertebrae, one Y-shaped chevron and some fragments of ribs. Galveosaurus herreroi is an eusauropod dinosaur that shows primitive features such as a slightly curved ischium with an unexpanded distal end, amphicoelous vertebrae, neural spine not bifid and an unforked chevron. It appears to be closer to cetiosaurid genera such as or Barapasaurus, Cetiosaurus. This new basal sauropod lived at the same time as the eusauropod Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis from Portugal. These are both relict genera that survived in the Iberian Peninsula when more derived neosauropods, such as Losillasaurus or Dinheirosaurus, had taken over other parts of Iberia.
Etymology
[genus] From Spanish Galve, dedicated to Galve, spanish town where fossil remains were found; and Greek sauros, lizard. [species] Dedicated to José María Herrero, who discovered the first remains of Galveosaurus
Holotype
A dorsal vertebra (CLH-16), housed in the Museo Paleontológico de Galve, figure 11 (also figured in Pérez Oñate et al, 1994: fig. 2; Cuenca-Bescós et al, 1997: fig. 3; Barco Rodríguez, 2003: figs. 34-43, 44c; Royo-Torres and Canudo, 2004: fig. 1; Barco, in press: fig. 3c; plates 1, 2).
Paratypes
Three cervical vertebrae (CL-2 in fig. 12, CL (CBC) 15-4 and MPZ 2003/884), a cervical rib (GAL00/CL/60), two dorsal spines (CL-JMH and GAL00/CL/62), a sacrum (GAL00/CL/90), a dorsal rib (GAL01/CL/102) and two dorsal rib fragments (CLH-5, CLH-22), six caudal vertebrae (CLH-8; CLH-15; GAL00/CL/35; two fused labeled CL (CBC)-31 and finally one CLH without number), a haemal arch (unlabeled, fused to CL (CBC)-31), a scapula (CLH-14), two humeri (CLH-1 right, and CLH-4 left), an ischium (CLH-6), a radius? fragment (CLH-21), a metatarsal (CLH-15 CBC) and a sternal plate? (CLH-7).
Diagnosis
Galvesaurus herreroi gen. nov., sp. nov. is characterized by 8 autapomorphic traits and its also characterized by the combination of 18 synapomorphies
Autamophies
1. Elongation Index (Upchurch, 1993) is aproximatedly 0,5.
2. In medial dorsal vertebrae the vertebral centrum and neural arch are only connected by mean of anterior and posterior centrodiapophyseal laminae (acdl, pcdl), with no contact of the centroprezygapophyseal (cprl) and centropostzygapophyseal (cpol) laminae with the vertebral centrum.
3. Parapophysis in dorsal vertebrae is situated in the centroprezygapophyseal lamina and not dividing anterior centrodiapophyseal lamina as usual in sauropods.
4. In medial dorsal vertebrae, accesory laminae connect intraprezygapophyseal lamina with centroprezygapophyseal lamina.
5. In medial dorsal vertebrae an accesory lamina is situated below the postzygodiapophyseal lamina.
6. Composite lamina in medial dorsal vertebrae (the one formed by union of the lateral spinopostzygapophyseal lamina and the spinodiapophyseal lamina) runs close to the posterior margin of the spine.
7. Spinoprezygapophyseal lamina in medial dorsal vertebrae runs across the lateral margin of the spine, and never situate in anterior or anterolateral position.
8. In medial dorsal vertebrae there is a deep cavity between spinoprezygapophyseal lamina and spinodiapophyseal lamina, wich has an accesory lamina that connects those laminae.
Synapomorphies
1. Pneumatopores (pleurocoels) in presacral centra (Wilson, 2002: character 78).
2. Opisthocoelous cervical centra (Wilson, 2002: Character 82).
3. Absence of ventral keel on cervical centra (Upchurch, 1998: character 83).
4. Mid-cervical neural arches taller than height of posterior centrum face (Wilson, 2002: character 87).
5. Excavation in the dorsal surface of parapophysis separated from the pleurocoel by a longitudinal ridge in the cervical vertebrae (Upchurch, 1998: character 86).
6. Lateral surface of cervical vertebrae is deeply excavated without oblique accessory laminae (Upchurch, 1998: character 87).
7. Pleurocoels in cranial dorsal centra have tapering acute caudal margins (Upchurch, 1998: character 96).
8. Pleurocoels in dorsal centra are deep, ramify extensively within the centrum and enter the base of the neural arch (Upchurch, 1998: character 98).
9. Height of dorsal neural arches is subequal to or greater than the height of the centrum (Upchurch, 1998: character 100).
10. Presence of deep excavation below the transverse process whitch leaves only a thin septum on the midline (Upchurch, 1998: character 108).
11. Dorsal neural spines with triangular lateral processes (Upchurch, 1998: character 116; Wilson, 2002: character 102).
12. Subtriangular horizontal cross-section thoungh the base of the dorsal neural spine (Upchurch, 1998: character 111).
13. Prominent suprapostzygapophyseal laminae on dorsal neural spines (Upchurch, 1998: character 112).
14. Middle and posterior dorsal neural arches with spinodiapophyseal lamina (spdl) (Wilson, 2002: character 99).
15. Middle and posterior dorsal neural arches with divided spinopostzygapophyseal lamina (spol) (Wilson, 2002: character 100).
16. Middle and posterior dorsal neural arches with spinodiapophyseal lamina (spdl) contacting spinopostzygapophyseal lamina (spol) (Wilson, 2002: character 101).
17. Dorsal transverse processes are directed laterally (Upchurch, 1998: character 102).
18. Presence of supradiapophyseal lamina on middle and caudal dorsal vertebrae (Upchurch, 1998: character 118).
Note
Sánchez-Hernández, B. (2006) The new sauropod from Spain: Galveosaurus or Galvesaurus? Zootaxa 1201: 63-68.
Abstract
\\\"On August 11th, 2005 I published a paper in which I described a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Galve, Spain: Galveosaurus herreroi. Unfortunately, four months later, a second paper based on the same dinosaur remains was published by different authors.
In this second paper, the authors gave the specimens a similar binomial name to the name I gave (with a difference of one letter, an “o”): Galvesaurus herreroi. In that paper, available on-line in pdf format from January 2006, the authors not only ignored my work, but they included a publication date: 1st July, 2005. Nevertheless, the article is included in the issue 15th of July-December, as could be read in every page of that work.
The issue was published on 18th December 2005, but according to the ICZN code (articles 21 and 23), the date of publication of the Barco et al. (2005) paper should be considered as December 31st, 2005 and based on the Principle of Priority, the name Galveosaurus herreroi Sánchez-Hernández, 2005 has priority and Galvesaurus herrero Barco, Canudo, Cuenca-Bescós and Ruíz-Omeñaca , 2005 should be considered as a junior synonym of the former and therefore, an invalid name.\\\"
To summarize, in 2005 Barbara Sánchez-Hernández described a sauropod from Galve, Spain, under the name Galveosaurus herreroi in the journal Zootaxa. That same year, Barco &c described a sauropod, also from Galve, that they named Galvesaurus herreroi in an issue of the magazine Naturaleza Aragonesa. The two names are based on the same holotype material, which was deposited at the same museum (Museo Paleontológico de Galve).
Apparently the two sets of researchers didn\\\'t cross paths before hand with regards to the description of the Galve sauropod. In this 2006 paper in Zootaxa, Sánchez-Hernández claims that her publication has date priority, because even though her paper was published in August, and the other paper claims to be published in July, the issue publication date of the latter is given as July-December, and the publication did not come out until December, 2005.
Sánchez-Hernández, 2005
Time
Jurassic Late Cretaceous Early Tithonian Berriasian
Classification
Saurischia Sauropodomorpha Sauropoda Turiasauria
Diet
Herbivore
Fossilsite
Villar del Arzobispo Formation, Galve, Teruel Province, Spain
Info
Genus - Typespecies
Represented by two humeri, one sternal plate, one ischium, one scapula, one cervical vertebra, one caudal dorsal vertebra, five caudal vertebrae, one Y-shaped chevron and some fragments of ribs. Galveosaurus herreroi is an eusauropod dinosaur that shows primitive features such as a slightly curved ischium with an unexpanded distal end, amphicoelous vertebrae, neural spine not bifid and an unforked chevron. It appears to be closer to cetiosaurid genera such as or Barapasaurus, Cetiosaurus. This new basal sauropod lived at the same time as the eusauropod Lourinhasaurus alenquerensis from Portugal. These are both relict genera that survived in the Iberian Peninsula when more derived neosauropods, such as Losillasaurus or Dinheirosaurus, had taken over other parts of Iberia.
Etymology
[genus] From Spanish Galve, dedicated to Galve, spanish town where fossil remains were found; and Greek sauros, lizard. [species] Dedicated to José María Herrero, who discovered the first remains of Galveosaurus
Holotype
A dorsal vertebra (CLH-16), housed in the Museo Paleontológico de Galve, figure 11 (also figured in Pérez Oñate et al, 1994: fig. 2; Cuenca-Bescós et al, 1997: fig. 3; Barco Rodríguez, 2003: figs. 34-43, 44c; Royo-Torres and Canudo, 2004: fig. 1; Barco, in press: fig. 3c; plates 1, 2).
Paratypes
Three cervical vertebrae (CL-2 in fig. 12, CL (CBC) 15-4 and MPZ 2003/884), a cervical rib (GAL00/CL/60), two dorsal spines (CL-JMH and GAL00/CL/62), a sacrum (GAL00/CL/90), a dorsal rib (GAL01/CL/102) and two dorsal rib fragments (CLH-5, CLH-22), six caudal vertebrae (CLH-8; CLH-15; GAL00/CL/35; two fused labeled CL (CBC)-31 and finally one CLH without number), a haemal arch (unlabeled, fused to CL (CBC)-31), a scapula (CLH-14), two humeri (CLH-1 right, and CLH-4 left), an ischium (CLH-6), a radius? fragment (CLH-21), a metatarsal (CLH-15 CBC) and a sternal plate? (CLH-7).
Diagnosis
Galvesaurus herreroi gen. nov., sp. nov. is characterized by 8 autapomorphic traits and its also characterized by the combination of 18 synapomorphies
Autamophies
1. Elongation Index (Upchurch, 1993) is aproximatedly 0,5.
2. In medial dorsal vertebrae the vertebral centrum and neural arch are only connected by mean of anterior and posterior centrodiapophyseal laminae (acdl, pcdl), with no contact of the centroprezygapophyseal (cprl) and centropostzygapophyseal (cpol) laminae with the vertebral centrum.
3. Parapophysis in dorsal vertebrae is situated in the centroprezygapophyseal lamina and not dividing anterior centrodiapophyseal lamina as usual in sauropods.
4. In medial dorsal vertebrae, accesory laminae connect intraprezygapophyseal lamina with centroprezygapophyseal lamina.
5. In medial dorsal vertebrae an accesory lamina is situated below the postzygodiapophyseal lamina.
6. Composite lamina in medial dorsal vertebrae (the one formed by union of the lateral spinopostzygapophyseal lamina and the spinodiapophyseal lamina) runs close to the posterior margin of the spine.
7. Spinoprezygapophyseal lamina in medial dorsal vertebrae runs across the lateral margin of the spine, and never situate in anterior or anterolateral position.
8. In medial dorsal vertebrae there is a deep cavity between spinoprezygapophyseal lamina and spinodiapophyseal lamina, wich has an accesory lamina that connects those laminae.
Synapomorphies
1. Pneumatopores (pleurocoels) in presacral centra (Wilson, 2002: character 78).
2. Opisthocoelous cervical centra (Wilson, 2002: Character 82).
3. Absence of ventral keel on cervical centra (Upchurch, 1998: character 83).
4. Mid-cervical neural arches taller than height of posterior centrum face (Wilson, 2002: character 87).
5. Excavation in the dorsal surface of parapophysis separated from the pleurocoel by a longitudinal ridge in the cervical vertebrae (Upchurch, 1998: character 86).
6. Lateral surface of cervical vertebrae is deeply excavated without oblique accessory laminae (Upchurch, 1998: character 87).
7. Pleurocoels in cranial dorsal centra have tapering acute caudal margins (Upchurch, 1998: character 96).
8. Pleurocoels in dorsal centra are deep, ramify extensively within the centrum and enter the base of the neural arch (Upchurch, 1998: character 98).
9. Height of dorsal neural arches is subequal to or greater than the height of the centrum (Upchurch, 1998: character 100).
10. Presence of deep excavation below the transverse process whitch leaves only a thin septum on the midline (Upchurch, 1998: character 108).
11. Dorsal neural spines with triangular lateral processes (Upchurch, 1998: character 116; Wilson, 2002: character 102).
12. Subtriangular horizontal cross-section thoungh the base of the dorsal neural spine (Upchurch, 1998: character 111).
13. Prominent suprapostzygapophyseal laminae on dorsal neural spines (Upchurch, 1998: character 112).
14. Middle and posterior dorsal neural arches with spinodiapophyseal lamina (spdl) (Wilson, 2002: character 99).
15. Middle and posterior dorsal neural arches with divided spinopostzygapophyseal lamina (spol) (Wilson, 2002: character 100).
16. Middle and posterior dorsal neural arches with spinodiapophyseal lamina (spdl) contacting spinopostzygapophyseal lamina (spol) (Wilson, 2002: character 101).
17. Dorsal transverse processes are directed laterally (Upchurch, 1998: character 102).
18. Presence of supradiapophyseal lamina on middle and caudal dorsal vertebrae (Upchurch, 1998: character 118).
Note
Sánchez-Hernández, B. (2006) The new sauropod from Spain: Galveosaurus or Galvesaurus? Zootaxa 1201: 63-68.
Abstract
\\\"On August 11th, 2005 I published a paper in which I described a new genus and species of sauropod dinosaur from the Upper Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous of Galve, Spain: Galveosaurus herreroi. Unfortunately, four months later, a second paper based on the same dinosaur remains was published by different authors.
In this second paper, the authors gave the specimens a similar binomial name to the name I gave (with a difference of one letter, an “o”): Galvesaurus herreroi. In that paper, available on-line in pdf format from January 2006, the authors not only ignored my work, but they included a publication date: 1st July, 2005. Nevertheless, the article is included in the issue 15th of July-December, as could be read in every page of that work.
The issue was published on 18th December 2005, but according to the ICZN code (articles 21 and 23), the date of publication of the Barco et al. (2005) paper should be considered as December 31st, 2005 and based on the Principle of Priority, the name Galveosaurus herreroi Sánchez-Hernández, 2005 has priority and Galvesaurus herrero Barco, Canudo, Cuenca-Bescós and Ruíz-Omeñaca , 2005 should be considered as a junior synonym of the former and therefore, an invalid name.\\\"
To summarize, in 2005 Barbara Sánchez-Hernández described a sauropod from Galve, Spain, under the name Galveosaurus herreroi in the journal Zootaxa. That same year, Barco &c described a sauropod, also from Galve, that they named Galvesaurus herreroi in an issue of the magazine Naturaleza Aragonesa. The two names are based on the same holotype material, which was deposited at the same museum (Museo Paleontológico de Galve).
Apparently the two sets of researchers didn\\\'t cross paths before hand with regards to the description of the Galve sauropod. In this 2006 paper in Zootaxa, Sánchez-Hernández claims that her publication has date priority, because even though her paper was published in August, and the other paper claims to be published in July, the issue publication date of the latter is given as July-December, and the publication did not come out until December, 2005.