RE: Sauropod Jone's Towns

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Dann Pigdon
>
> Farlow,James wrote:
> >
> >      I have to betray my ignorance, or faulty memory, by asking
> the group a
> >      question:  Does anybody know of bonebeds in which a particular
> >      sauropod species dominates the assemblage, the way hadrosaurs and
> >      ceratopsians dominate some Cretaceous bonebeds?
>
> Didn't I read somewhere about Shunosaurus being known from about
> 20 complete
> skeletons? Did they all come from the same assemblage?

If memory serves, this wasn't a monospecific bone bed: some theropods and
other sauropods were found among them, I think.  (Could be wrong, though).

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