CORDILLERA DINOS

[darren.naish@port.ac.uk]

A few brief questions on Kell00Bell's post (what is your real name?)... 

>  It is interesting that "Betasuchus"  is similar to Dryptosaurus

Who says this? I've handled the 'Betasuchus' material and recall it 
being somewhat abelisaur-like. Is it in Weishampel and Young?

> Perhaps that was a European island, given the tentative identification of
> Thescelosaurus from Romania.

This is news to me, where was this published? I know Galton (1999) 
referred to much new thescelosaur stuff in his recent paper but I don't 
recall any of it being from Romania [Galton, P.M. 1999. Cranial 
anatomy of the hypsilophodontid dinosaur _Bugenasaura inferratis_ 
(Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the Upper Cretaceous of North 
America. _Rev. Paleobiol., Geneve_ 18, 517-534].

> In addition to a probable America-Europe link, Tarascosaurus,
> in particular, supports a Europe-Africa connection, inasmuch as
> abelisaurs are otherwise known only from Gondwana.  

Note that there are other possible European abelisauroids besides 
_Tarascosaurus_, e.g. the maxilla from Bouches-du-Rhone, France. 
Incidentally, no abelisauroids in the Wealden yet, describe my best 
efforts to find one.

>  Czerkas once mentioned probable South American tyrannosaurs,
>  based on "fragmentary fossils."  

This is probably based on _Genyodectes_, now thought to be an 
abelisauroid.

On another note - I learnt the other day that there is an oriental drink 
called Tsingtao beer.

DARREN NAISH 
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