Re: Gondawanan dinosaurs

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

NJPharris@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 3/23/00 7:13:52 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> jodan99@uol.com.br writes:
> 
> > 2) I've read about nodosaurs in Australia, South America, ANtarctica, New
> > Zealand. So there must be at least a Gondwanan nodosaurian group.
> 
> One note:  _Minmi_, the relatively well-known Australian "nodosaur", is not a
> nodosaur but probably closer to ankylosaurs.  Whatever it is, it branched off
> the ankylosaurian family tree early.
> 
> I believe I have heard that the Antarctic form may be _Minmi_ or close to it.
>

I believe there are ribs from New Zealand that have been tentatively assigned to
Minmi as well. It may well have been Austro-Antarctica's "Early Cretaceous
sheep".

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