Re: CRETACEOUS BRACHIOSAURS

["Steve Brusatte" <dinoland@lycos.com>]

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 12:04:05  
 darren.naish wrote:
>Tracy and Mickey M have been discussing the diversity of Cretaceous 
>sauropods. Both mentioned the African brachiosaurid described by 
>Rauhut and Werner (1997).
>
>Apparently this specimen (a femur) is Titanosauriformes incertae sedis 
>- Dave Martill and I say this in _Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight_ 
>following a pers. comm. from Paul Barrett. Not definite brachiosaurid 
>apparently... assuming that the latter is a clade of course:)

I haven't been following this thread too closely, as I've been off-list for 
awhile due to computer problems.  However, I haven't seen anyone mention a 
possible brachiosaurian vertebra from the Albian of France, as described in:

Knoll, F. et al. 2000. On the presence of a sauropod dinosaur (Saurischia) in 
the Albian of Aube (France). Geodiversitas 22 (3): 389-394.  

It's an intriguing short paper that describes a neat sauropod caudal vertebra 
that may represent both the only known brachiosaurid from the Albian of Europe 
and possibly one of the youngest brachiosaurids known.

Steve

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