Re: Swedish Hypsilophodonts -- The ARTICLE

[Danvarner@aol.com]

In a message dated 10/4/01 3:24:15 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
killerraptor20@hotmail.com writes:


<< >From a friend of mine in Sweden:

>The new species is "Kristianasaura ugnsmunnarnensis". It are diagnosticized 
>by the peculiar morphologic of the teeth. Bones are found with the teeth 
>and hopefully more will be discovered as with more excavations.
>
>Its come Cretaceous in age. From Kristianstad Basin in Skäne region, of 
>south Sverige (Sveden). Found with mosasauria bones - perhaps involving 
>prey capture of herbivorus dinosaur by large sea reptilia; > evidence 
>ambigious perhaps. Discoveries namened and outlawed in Svedish journal this 
>past week (Lunds Universitet Tjänster). >>

       It sounds very much like the specimens came from the lower Campanian 
deposits in Sweden roughly equivalent to the Sharon Springs Member of the 
Pierre Shale in Kansas, the Dakotas, and Manitoba. See:
       http://www.oceansofkansas.com/lindgren.html
       
       DV