Post by theropod on Sept 24, 2013 17:11:36 GMT 5
One gets the strong impression many taxa previously tought to have become extinct in the Turonian actually survived up to the very end of the mesozoic.
I just stumbled across this: www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e78-015
Carcharodontosaurs are also reported, based on big numbers of teeth and a maxillary fragment:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667112001176
Megaraptora are supposedly an allosauroid clade newly evolving during the upper Cretaceous, even tough they have at times been referred to Coelurosauria:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-009-0614-x
The following page contains a mention of possible spinosaurid remains: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maevarano_Formation
There have even been rumours of Pliosaurid and Diplodocid vertebrae, tough I suppose they would be quite difficult to assign and may be confused with (other) sauropods an/or plesiosaurs.
It appears the C/T-event only had major effects on environments in the northern hemisphere and most groups actually survived, merely losing dominance.
I just stumbled across this: www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e78-015
Carcharodontosaurs are also reported, based on big numbers of teeth and a maxillary fragment:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667112001176
Megaraptora are supposedly an allosauroid clade newly evolving during the upper Cretaceous, even tough they have at times been referred to Coelurosauria:
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-009-0614-x
The following page contains a mention of possible spinosaurid remains: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maevarano_Formation
There have even been rumours of Pliosaurid and Diplodocid vertebrae, tough I suppose they would be quite difficult to assign and may be confused with (other) sauropods an/or plesiosaurs.
It appears the C/T-event only had major effects on environments in the northern hemisphere and most groups actually survived, merely losing dominance.
