Re: Amargasaurus...

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

Here are the possible taxa that it may of attacked:

Basal Ornithischia

Pisanosaurus mertii (Ischigualasto Fm.; Carnian; San Juan)

Ankylosauridae

N. gen. et sp. (Allen Fm.; early Maastrichtian; Neuquen)

Stegosauridae

Stegosauridae indet. (La Amarga Fm; Hauterivian; Neuquen)

Dryomorpha

Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis (Rio Coloardo Fm.; Anacleto Mb.; Coniacian-Santonian; Neuquen)

Loncosaurus argentinus (Mata Amarilla Fm.; Santonian-early Campanian; Santa Cruz)

N. gen. et sp. (Bajo Barreal Fm.; ?Cenomanian; Chubut)

Hadrosauridae

Secernosaurus koerneri (?Laguna Palacios Fm.; Maastrichtian; Chubut)

"Kritosaurus" australia (Los Alamitos Fm.; Campanian-early Maastrichtian; Rio Negro)

Lambeosaurinae indet. (Allen Fm.; early Maastrichtian; Rio Negro)

This is just some.

Steve

>From: "Rob Gay"

>Reply-To: rob_redwing@hotmail.com

>To: dinosaur@usc.edu

>Subject: Re: Amargasaurus...

>Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:19:17

>

>>Yes, large carcharodontosaurs would have towered over it. However,

>>lets

>>look at hadrosaurs for a moment. Amargasaurus was about 12 meters

>>long,

>>and lived along with Giganotosaurus and this newly discovered

>>critter.

>>There were several species of hadrosaurid dinosaurs, including

>>Parasaurolophus and Lambeosaurus, that were the same general size

>>(sometimes even smaller), and lived alongside Tyrannosaurus<

>Which kind of brings me to a question I've had for some time. What

>else,

>beyond sauropods, could _Giganotosaurus_ have preyed one?

>Peace,

>Rob

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