*Talenkauen* published

[Justin S Tweet <thescelosaurus@juno.com>]

Here's a quick dispatch:

I'm a bit surprised to see that no one else has run across this yet, but
*Talenkauen santacrucensis* has now been officially published:

Novas, Fernando E., Andrea V. Cambiaso, and Alfredo Ambrosio, 2004. A new
basal iguanodontian (Dinosauria, Ornithischia) from the Upper Cretaceous
of Patagonia: Ameghiniana 41(1): 75-85.

>From my notes, it's from the Maastrichtian-age Pari Aike Formation; other
dinosaurs from the formation include medium to gigantic titanosaurids. 
The skeleton is preserved from the skull to about the end of the sacrum,
missing tail, distal ends of ischia and pubes, ulna, and the hands.  From
the skeletal restoration, it's dryosaurid-like, with a longish neck and
relatively small head.  The plate-like possible uncinate processes
mentioned in the National Geographic piece are discussed, but the authors
do not find a relationship with *Thescelosaurus*, the other known
plate-bearing ornithopod.  The authors' phylogeny puts it between
*Gasparinisaura* and *Anabisetia*.

I found it in the print version; last time I checked, this issue hasn't
yet made it to PDF.-Justin

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