Anabisetia published!

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

Okay, this isn't "new" news anymore, but I don't recall it being mentioned 
onlist.

The reference is-

R.A. Coria & J.O. Calvo, (2002).  A NEW IGUANODONTIAN ORNITHOPOD FROM 
NEUQUEN BASIN, PATAGONIA, ARGENTINA.  Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 
22(3): 503-509

"ABSTRACT?The discovery of a new iguanodontian ornithopod in the lower units 
of the Neuquen Group (Rio Limay
Formation, early Upper Cretaceous) increases the South American record of 
this kind of dinosaurs started few years
ago with the report of Gasparinisaura cincosaltensis. Anabisetia saldiviai, 
gen. et sp. nov. is distinguished from all
other ornithopods by several features, as a flattened fifth metacarpal, a 
scapula with a very strong acromial process,
and an ilium with preacetabular process longer than 50% of the total ilium 
length. Anabisetia is more derived than
Tenontosaurus and shares with Euiguanodontia (Gasparinisaura 1 Dryomorpha) 
the presence of one primary lateral
ridge on each maxillary tooth, a broad brevis-shelf and a reduced first 
metatarsal. Derived features such as the transversely
flattened prepubic process and an anteroventrally oriented ischiadic foot 
link Anabisetia with Dryomorpha (i.e.,
Dryosaurus, Camptosaurus and Iguanodon). Anabisetia strengths the hypothesis 
that basal iguanodontian ornithopods
were present in South America before its with North America in the Late 
Cretaceous."

Thanks to HP Mallon for helping me get this ref!

Nick Gardner

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