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Re: Let's scrap it!
> David Marjanovic wrote-
>
> > Apart from the K dinosaurs, the angiosperms
OK, there's only one...
> > from Liáoníng are evidence for a
> > K age -- and none of that K stuff occurs in the underlying Tuchengzi Fm
> > which is LJ (contains *Archaeoceratops*).
>
> No, Archaeoceratops is from the Xinminbao Group, which is Barremian.
You're
> thinking of Chaoyangsaurus.
Oops, true.
> Incidentally, the Tuchengzi Formation is Late
> Berriasian (Swisher et al., 2002).
Very interesting. Could you give me the ref?
> > Most of the K dinosaur groups [...] are known from the J [...]
>
> Not really, we have no Jurassic segnosaurs,
If we don't accept *Eshanosaurus*.
> oviraptorosaurs, pygostylians,
> psittacosaurids or neoceratopsians, named or not.
True -- but for pygostylians, I'd love to find out more on the birds
reported last summer from the LJ of the Harz mountains in Germany.