Re: Triassic mammal-like reptiles?

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 08:56:26 +0100 K and T Dykes <ktdykes@arcor.de>
writes:

> Three synapsid lineages are known to have survived the 
> Permian-Triassic mass
> extinction(s); dicynodonts, therocephalians and cynodonts.  
> Dicynodont
> herbivores became widespread and diverse, but more or less disappear 
> during
> the beginnings of the Upper Triassic (Carnian).  Bizarrely, there 
> are
> fragments of skull apparently from the Lower Cretaceous of 
> Australia, which
> have been sensibly interpreted as dicynodont.  If the time and the 
> diagnosis
> are correct (and they seem to be), that is astonishing.


Any chance the material was redeposited from a Triassic formation?  Are
there any Triassic units near the Australian locality or in its
subsurface?

<pb>
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