Re: Looking for tiny dinosaurs

["A.B. Heckert" <heckerta@unm.edu>]

Regarding _Revueltosaurus callenderi_ teeth:

        Typical crowns of _Revueltosaurus_ are on the order of 1 cm tall.
With roots, such teeth approach (and some may exceed) 2 cm. They
are far larger than the teeth of taxa such as _Tecovasaurus_ and
_Lucianosaurus_, which are typically on the order of 2-3 mm in height. The
original article on _Revueltosaurus_ by Hunt (1989) is hard to find in the
now-out-of-print "Dawn of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American Southwest".
However, Padian wrote a brief note in 1990 that appears in the Journal of
Vertebrate Paleontology  about _Revueltosaurus_ teeth from the Painted
Desert in the Petrified Forest National Park that is more accessible and
shows some pictures. I can provide more detailed references on request.

Andrew B. Heckert

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> Which reminds me... can anyone give me the dimensions for the teeth 
> of _Revueltosaurus_? 
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> ( I have Donald Glut's Dinosaur Encyclopedia, but the measurements
> he gives are frankly unbelievable - just one of the uncountable number of
> typos in this volume.) 
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Andrew B. Heckert
Dept. Earth and Planetary Sciences
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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