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

[Jean-Michel BENOIT <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>]

Hello all,
IIRC, Temnosdpondyl remains have been found in Cretaceous formations whereas
these critters were previously thought to have long disappeared.
Cheers,
Jean-Michel

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From: "K and T Dykes" <ktdykes@arcor.de>
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Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: Cretaceous Dicynodonts was Re Triassic mammal-like reptiles?


> <<carcasses and bones can be carried downriver  (by water, scavengers, and
> such)....could fossilized bones\skeletons be likewise?>>
>
> They could to some extent, but if much distance were involved, they should
> be heavily damaged to completely wrecked.  What fragments there are,
happen
> to be well enough preserved to be show diagnostic characteristics.
They've
> also got the appropriate matrix stuck to them.  The authors have it as a
> late surivivor of a clade involving /Dicynodon/, /Kannemeyeria/ and
> /Lystrosaurus/.  It's more similar to the first two.  Page 989 has a quote
> attesting to their certainty: "In summary, all available evidence supports
> identification of the Alderley material as a late-surviving dicynodont,
and
> we are unable to find even a single feature that would weaken or
contradict
> that identification."
>
> <<(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*>>
>
> There were no mentions I can remember of significant transportation
damage.
> All the fragments are pieces of skull, and they're consistent with being
> from the same skull.  It's a bizarre find.  I live in hope more material
> will turn up one day.  Oh, and I think they mention an estimate for the
> complete skull length somewhere of about 40cm.  I've just found where;
> page987.
>
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