Re: WHAT HAPPENED AT SVPCA

[rjmeyer@ix.netcom.com (Rob Meyerson)]

Darren Naish wrote,

>Paul Barrett spoke about new dinosaurs from Lower Cretaceous Japan. A 
>skull - Japans's most complete dino specimen to date - is very like 
>_Hypsilophodon_; there were also velociraptorine and tyrannosaurid 
>teeth and a possible oviraptorosaurian ungual. 

I am interested in the dinosaur evolution that occurred in Japan.  Is there any 
evidence to suggest that Japan was ever attached to the asian continent, or was 
it always an island?  How similar are the Japanese dinosaurs to the Chinese 
ones from the same period?

Thanks in advance.


Rob Meyerson

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