Re: Mapusaurus roseae & Antarctopelta oliveroi

["Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, T. Michael Keesey wrote:
> On 3/31/06, Jay <sappororaptor@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Antarctopelta is the 2nd named dinosaur from Antarctica.
>
> Not counting _Neogaeornis wetzeli_, _Vegavis iaai_, much of
> _Spheniscidae_, etc....
>
> Put it this way--it's the first plant-eating dinosaur from Antarctica
> to be named. (Heck, the first plant-eating *anything* from Antarctica
> to be named, probably--what else is there?)


Well, seems to be a short list anyways...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/03/0309_040309_polardinos.html

Working in some of the planet's harshest conditions, fossil hunters have 
found two completely new species of dinosaur in Antarctica. This increases 
to eight the number of dinosaur species found on the perpetually frozen 
southern landmass.
...
The first, a 190 million-year-old plant-eater from the early Jurassic 
period, was found by chance on December 713,000 feet (3,900 meters) up a 
mountain. A mountaineer accompanying paleontologists turned up the 
animal's huge pelvis in an informal search only a few miles from the South 
Pole.

Two thousand miles (3,200 kilometers) across the continent, and less than 
a week later, the scant remains of another dinosaur were foundcompletely 
by chanceon what once was the bottom of a shallow ocean. This 
70-million-year-old dinosaur is the only known Antarctic meat-eater from 
the late Cretaceous period and is thought to have unusually primitive 
features for this period.
...