Sigilmassasaurus is Spinosaurus: a reappraisal of African spinosaurines

RSH Smyth, N Ibrahim, DM Martill - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Remains of enigmatic spinosaurs from mid-Cretaceous North African strata have, for over a
century, been the subject of taxonomic deliberations. The gigantic Spinosaurus aegyptiacus …

New data on spinosaurid dinosaurs from the Early Cretaceous of the Sahara

P Taquet, DA Russell - Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences …, 1998 - Elsevier
New occurrences of spinosaurid dinosaurs from the Aptian of Niger and Albian of Algeria
augment our knowledge of Spinosaurus maroccanus and permit the description of a new …

Spinosaurs before Stromer: early finds of spinosaurid dinosaurs and their interpretations

E Buffetaut - Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 2010 - lyellcollection.org
Abstract When Stromer described Spinosaurus aegyptiacus and erected the family
Spinosauridae in 1915 he mentioned that teeth from the Cretaceous of the Djoua region of …

[HTML][HTML] A reappraisal of the morphology and systematic position of the theropod dinosaur Sigilmassasaurus from the “middle” Cretaceous of Morocco

SW Evers, OWM Rauhut, AC Milner, B McFeeters… - PeerJ, 2015 - peerj.com
Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis is an enigmatic theropod dinosaur from the early Late
Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of Morocco, originally based on a few isolated cervical vertebrae …

A spinosaurid from Thailand (Sao Khua Formation, Early Cretaceous) and a reassessment of Camarillasaurus cirugedae from the Early Cretaceous of Spain

A Samathi, PM Sander, P Chanthasit - Historical Biology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We report theropod caudal vertebrae found at Phu Wiang Mountain, Thailand. They
resemble the Portuguese Baryonyx and pertain to the Spinosauridae based on the presence …

[HTML][HTML] Spinosaur taxonomy and evolution of craniodental features: evidence from Brazil

MAF Sales, CL Schultz - PLoS One, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Fossil sites from Brazil have yielded specimens of spinosaurid theropods, among which the
most informative include the cranial remains of Irritator, Angaturama, and Oxalaia. In this …

[HTML][HTML] Spinosaurid teeth from the Late Jurassic of Tendaguru, Tanzania, with remarks on the evolutionary and biogeographical history of the Spinosauridae

É Buffetaut - Travaux et Documents des Laboratoires de Géologie …, 2008 - persee.fr
Janensch (1920, 1925) described nine ornamented theropod teeth from the Late Jurassic of
Tendaguru (Tanzania) as Labrosaurus (?) stechowi. These teeth are from the «Mittlere …

The first record of a spinosaurid pedal ungual from Brazil (Boca do Forno Ravine, Itapecuru Formation, Parnaíba Basin)

TC de França, N Santos Brilhante… - Historical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Despite being poorly known from limited skeletal remains as teeth and a few postcranial
material, spinosaurid remains have been reported from two different Lower Cretaceous …

[HTML][HTML] Juvenile spinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) from the middle Cretaceous of Morocco and implications for spinosaur ecology

RJ Lakin, NR Longrich - Cretaceous Research, 2019 - Elsevier
The Spinosauridae is a specialised clade of theropod dinosaurs known from the Berriasian
to the Cenomanian of Africa, South America, Europe and Asia. Spinosaurs were unusual …

A long-snouted predatory dinosaur from Africa and the evolution of spinosaurids

PC Sereno, AL Beck, DB Dutheil, B Gado… - Science, 1998 - science.org
Fossils discovered in Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) rocks in the Ténéré Desert of central Niger
provide new information about spinosaurids, a peculiar group of piscivorous theropod …