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Journal of the Geological Society; 2005; v. 162; issue.3; p. 481-484;
DOI: 10.1144/0016-764904-053
© 2005 Geological Society of London

Original Article

First dinosaur from the Shan–Thai Block of SE Asia: a Jurassic sauropod from the southern peninsula of Thailand

Eric Buffetaut1, Varavudh Suteethorn2, Haiyan Tong1 & Adrijan Kosir3

1 1CNRS (UMR 5125, Paléoenvironments et Paléobiosphère), 16 cour du Liégat, 75013 Paris, France (e-mail: Eric.Buffetaut@wandadoo.fr)
2 2Department of Mineral Resources, Rama VI Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand
3 3Institute of Palaeontology ZRC SAZU, Gosposka 13, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

A vertebra collected from the Jurassic non-marine Khlong Min Formation of southern Thailand is referred to the family Euhelopodidae, a group of sauropod dinosaurs that apparently was endemic to eastern Asia during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, at a time when that part of the world was isolated from other land masses. The occurrence of a euhelopodid in the Jurassic of the Shan–Thai Block supports the idea of a collision of the Shan–Thai Block with the Indochina Block, thus establishing connections with ‘mainland Asia’, early in the Mesozoic, probably before the Jurassic.


Keywords: Thailand, Shan–Thai Block, Jurassic, Sauropoda, biogeography.




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