Sigilmassasaurus is Spinosaurus: a reappraisal of African spinosaurines

Citation

Smyth, R. S. H.; Ibrahim, N.; Martill, D. M. (2020). Sigilmassasaurus is Spinosaurus: a reappraisal of African spinosaurines. Cretaceous Research 114: 104520. Elsevier BV. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104520

Cited by genera

• Ostafrikasaurus

  Regards the species a nomen dubium for want of confirmable spinosaurid features and notes a plausible case for ceratosaurian affinities.

• Oxalaia

  Rejects every proposed autapomorphy and treats the species as a junior synonym of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

• Siamosaurus

  Treated Siamosaurus suteethorni as a nomen dubium.

• Sigilmassasaurus

  Rejects every proposed autapomorphy and treats the genus as a junior synonym of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.

• Spinosaurus

  Treats Spinosaurus maroccanus and Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis as junior synonyms of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, attributing their proposed autapomorphies to axial position and intraspecific variation.