The Venice specimen of Ouranosaurus nigeriensis (Dinosauria, Ornithopoda).

ABSTRACT: Ouranosaurus nigeriensis is an iconic African dinosaur taxon that has been described on the basis of two nearly complete skeletons from the Lower Cretaceous Gadoufaoua locality of the Ténéré desert in Niger. The entire holotype and a few bones attributed to the paratype formed the basis of the original description by Taquet (1976). A mounted skeleton that appears to correspond to O. nigeriensis has been on public display since 1975, exhibited at the Natural History Museum of Venice. It was never explicitly reported whether the Venice specimen represents a paratype and therefore, the second nearly complete skeleton reported in literature or a third unreported skeleton. The purpose of this paper is to disentangle the complex history of the various skeletal remains that have bee

SUBMITTER: Bertozzo F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5480399 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature