R: SOME ORNITHOPOD STUFF (FOR ONCE)

["Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>]

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A: martin.barnett3@virgin.net <martin.barnett3@virgin.net>; dinosaur@usc.edu
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Data: lunedì 23 agosto 1999 7.00
Oggetto: SOME ORNITHOPOD STUFF (FOR ONCE)

> <<2)    Are any hadrosaurids known to have had thumb-spikes>>
>No
><<or any guanodontids known to have had head crest adornment,>>
>One kind of does.  Altirhinus kurzanovi has a large nasal crest that is
>reminescent of that seen in Gryposaurus.  It has long been refered to
>(incorrectly) as Igunodon "orientalis", but Norman has shown that the type
of
>I "orientalis" is just a weird individual of I bernessartensis, and not an
>individual of the big nosed species.


A part from Altirhinus kurzanovi there are also Muttaburrasaurus langdoni
that have a nasal crest, similar to that in Altirhinus and Gryposaurus.

By
Alessandro Marisa
 "Volunteer of Paleontological Museum of Monfalcone"
Via Achille Grandi n°18
38068 ROVERETO (TN) ITALY
Tel: 039-0464-434658 Email: amaris@tin.it