Primer Saurópodo en Shan-Thai, Asia

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

Eric Buffetaut, Varavudh Suteethorn, Haiyan Tong, Adrijan Kosir. Journal of the Geological Society. May 2005.Vol.162 Part 3.pg. 481, 4 pgs

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.