Re: New Sauropod

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Tim Williams wrote:
> 
> Dann Pigdon wrote:
> 
> >Certainly by the EK, Australian dinosaur diversity appears more like
> >that of Asia than India or South America.
> 
> I read this and thought, "Hmmm.... Does Dann know something I don't know?"
> :-)
> 

This was just something the Riches said to me a few years ago.

The mid-Jurassic Rhoetosaurus has been compared with Shunosaurus, and
there are fragmentary EK remains that resemble those of oviraptorosaurs,
dromaeosaurs (teeth mainly), alzarezsaurs, ornithomimosaurs (even
without the Timimus material), protoceratopians, and enantiornithines.
Allosauroid remains have been compared with Fukuiraptor, and there are
Australosphenids known from China.

That's not to say that there aren't similarities with South American
fauna, though. :)

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