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However, recently, a number of \u2018extinct\u2019 groups have been recognised in the Early Cretaceous, including diplodocids in Gondwana, and non-titanosauriform macronarians in Laurasia. Turiasauria, a clade of non-neosauropod eusauropods, was originally thought to have been restricted to the Late Jurassic of western Europe. However, its distribution has recently been extended to the Late Jurassic of Tanzania (\n                    <jats:italic>Tendaguria tanzaniensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), as well as to the Early Cretaceous of the USA (\n                    <jats:italic>Mierasaurus bobyoungi<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Moabosaurus utahensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    ), demonstrating the survival of another \u2018basal\u2019 clade across the J\/K boundary. Teeth from the Middle Jurassic\u2013Early Cretaceous of western Europe and North Africa have also tentatively been attributed to turiasaurs, whilst recent phylogenetic analyses recovered Late Jurassic taxa from Argentina and China as further members of Turiasauria. Here, an anterior dorsal centrum and neural arch (both NHMUK 1871) from the Early Cretaceous Wealden Supergroup of the UK are described for the first time. NHMUK 1871 shares several synapomorphies with Turiasauria, especially the turiasaurs\n                    <jats:italic>Moabosaurus<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Tendaguria<\/jats:italic>\n                    , including: (1) a strongly dorsoventrally compressed centrum; (2) the retention of prominent epipophyses; and (3) an extremely low, non-bifid neural spine. NHMUK 1871 therefore represents the first postcranial evidence for Turiasauria from European deposits of Early Cretaceous age. Although turiasaurs show clear heterodont dentition, only broad, characteristically \u2018heart\u2019-shaped teeth can currently be attributed to Turiasauria with confidence. As such, several putative turiasaur occurrences based on isolated teeth from Europe, as well as the Middle Jurassic and Early Cretaceous of Africa, cannot be confidently referred to Turiasauria. 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