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RE: Japanese tyrannosaurid - 81 mya - so ... ?
Nope; no good mesic dinosaur community of that age currently studied on
mainland Asia.
And keep in mind: Japan IS the mainland. It is not an oceanic island arc (like
the Aleutians). It is a continental volcanic arc, in which the forearc basin
has downwarped and flooded to form the Sea of Japan. Something like Laramidia
and the Western Interior Seaway, only more complicated.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-4084
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Office: Geology 4106
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Phone: 301-405-9695
Fax: 301-314-9661
Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
Office: Centreville 1216
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843
Mailing Address: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Department of Geology
Building 237, Room 1117
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
> Hammer
> Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2015 1:30 PM
> To: DML
> Subject: re: Japanese tyrannosaurid - 81 mya - so ... ?
>
> Any guesses based on what the article shows about the teeth about what animal
> this might be (from the Asian "mainland") fauna?