Re:Cenomanian STEGOSAURS

["Tim Donovan" <msdonovan66@hotmail.com>]

> From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
> Reply-To: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: MALAWI STEGOSAURS
> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:03:36 +0100
>
> Fred Bervoets wrote...
>
> > The Malawi (stegosaurian) material mentioned by Jacobs
> > in one of his books wasn't stegosaurian, I have asked him
> > personally after reeding it.
>
> Yeah, Jacobs et al said in one of their papers that the
> material was actually sauropod.
>
> Incidentally, Cretaceous African stegosaur material (besides
> _Paranthodon_) was reported from the ?Cenomanian of
> Morocco by Dale Russell (1996).


   How definite is the identification? Could it be nodosaurid? Or reworked? 
 Previous claims of late surviving stegosaurs e.g. Dravidosaurus, have not 
held up.





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> Darren Naish
> School of Earth & Environmental Sciences
> University of Portsmouth UK, PO1 3QL
>
> email: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
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