Image: Tapuiasaurus

Description: Skull of Tapuiasaurus macedoi, gen. n. sp. n. Photographs and half-tone drawings of the skull of the holotype MZSP-PV 807 in right lateral view (A), left lateral view (B), dorsal view (C), and occipital view (D). Abbreviations: an, angular; aof, antorbital fenestra; ar, articular; asaf, anterior surangular foramen; atl, atlas; bt, basal tubera; bptp, basipterygoid process; d, dentary; ect, ectopterygoid; en, external nares; f, frontal; fm, forame magnum; itf, infratemporal fenestra; j, jugal; l, lacrimal; ls, latrosphenoid; m, maxilla; n, nasal; oc, occipital condyle; os, orbitosphenoid; p, parietal; paof, preantorbital fenestra; pf, prefrontal; pl, palatine; pm, premaxilla; po, postorbital; pp, paroccipital process; psaf, posterior surangular foramen; pt, pterygoid; q, quadrate; qf, quadrate foramen; qj, quadratojugal; sa, surangular; sf, subnarial foramen; soc, supraoccipital; sq, squamosal; sr, sclerotic ring; stf, supratemporal fenestra. Scale bar represents 10 cm.
Title: Tapuiasaurus
Credit: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0016663
Author: Hussam Zaher1*, Diego Pol2, Alberto B. Carvalho1, Paulo M. Nascimento1, Claudio Riccomini3, Peter Larson4,5, Rubén Juarez-Valieri6, Ricardo Pires-Domingues1,3, Nelson Jorge da Silva Jr.7, Diógenes de Almeida Campos8
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