Re: Cretaceous Dicynodonts was Re Triassic mammal-like reptiles?

[Rodlox R <rodlox@hotmail.com>]

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

> On page 987 they pose the question: Is this a dicynodont?

> "In short, we can find no reason to doubt that QMF15.990 originated from 
> the
> Rolling Downs Group.  It seems quite certainly to be Early Cretaceous in 
> age
> and was probably introduced into the marine environment by flood-waters 
> that
> also carried the carcases of sauropods, ankylosaurs and ornithopod 
> dinosaurs
> (Molnar 1991, 1996a,b)."

carcasses and bones can be carried downriver  (by water, scavengers, and 
such)....could fossilized bones\skeletons be likewise?

(if it was a complete Dicynodont skeleton, maybe it'd been a mummified 
specimen, but the mummy skin was torn off in the Early Cretaceous...by the 
above strategy)

halfway plausible? *curious*


have nice days.