Re: Euro-dinosaur issue of Comptes Rendus Palevol

["Brad McFeeters" <archosauromorph2@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: ratites637@hotmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Euro-dinosaur issue of Comptes Rendus Palevol
> Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 22:12:48 -0500
>
> > Both are single tooth crowns; the first find, a
> > 21-mm crown, is a dromaeosaurine, Dromaeosauroides
> > bornholmensis Christiansen & Bonde 2003, possibly the only
> > true dromaeosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe.
> > Estimated length of the animal is over 3 m.
>
> "Only true dromaeosaur"?  Are Variraptor and Pyroraptor no longer 
> considered dromaeosaurs?  Is this find the same as the Denmark 
> dromaeosaurid tooth reported a few years ago?

Only true dromaeosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Europe.  Variraptor and 
Pyroraptor are Upper Cretaceous.

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