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Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia
During the Early Cretaceous, dinosaur communities of the Australian-Antarctic rift system (Eumeralla and Wonthaggi formations) cropping out in Victoria were apparently dominated by a diverse small-bodied ‘basal ornithopod’ fauna. Further north, in Queensland (Winton and Mackunda formations), poorly-...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6284429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30533306 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6008 |
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author | Bell, Phil R. Herne, Matthew C. Brougham, Tom Smith, Elizabeth T. |
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description | During the Early Cretaceous, dinosaur communities of the Australian-Antarctic rift system (Eumeralla and Wonthaggi formations) cropping out in Victoria were apparently dominated by a diverse small-bodied ‘basal ornithopod’ fauna. Further north, in Queensland (Winton and Mackunda formations), poorly-represented small-bodied ornithopods coexisted with large-bodied iguanodontians. Our understanding of the ornithopod diversity from the region between the Australian-Antarctic rift and Queensland, represented by Lightning Ridge in central-northern New South Wales (Griman Creek Formation), has been superficial. Here, we re-investigate the ornithopod diversity at Lightning Ridge based on new craniodental remains. Our findings indicate a diverse ornithopod fauna consisting of two-to-three small-bodied non-iguanodontian ornithopods (including Weewarrasaurus pobeni gen. et sp. nov.), at least one indeterminate iguanodontian, and a possible ankylopollexian. These results support those of previous studies that favour a general abundance of small-bodied basal ornithopods in Early to mid-Cretaceous high-latitude localities of southeastern Australia. Although these localities are not necessarily time-equivalent, increasing evidence indicates that Lightning Ridge formed a ‘meeting point’ between the basal ornithopod-dominated localities in Victoria and the sauropod-iguanodontian faunas in Queensland to the north. |
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spelling | pubmed-62844292018-12-07 Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia Bell, Phil R. Herne, Matthew C. Brougham, Tom Smith, Elizabeth T. PeerJ Paleontology During the Early Cretaceous, dinosaur communities of the Australian-Antarctic rift system (Eumeralla and Wonthaggi formations) cropping out in Victoria were apparently dominated by a diverse small-bodied ‘basal ornithopod’ fauna. Further north, in Queensland (Winton and Mackunda formations), poorly-represented small-bodied ornithopods coexisted with large-bodied iguanodontians. Our understanding of the ornithopod diversity from the region between the Australian-Antarctic rift and Queensland, represented by Lightning Ridge in central-northern New South Wales (Griman Creek Formation), has been superficial. Here, we re-investigate the ornithopod diversity at Lightning Ridge based on new craniodental remains. Our findings indicate a diverse ornithopod fauna consisting of two-to-three small-bodied non-iguanodontian ornithopods (including Weewarrasaurus pobeni gen. et sp. nov.), at least one indeterminate iguanodontian, and a possible ankylopollexian. These results support those of previous studies that favour a general abundance of small-bodied basal ornithopods in Early to mid-Cretaceous high-latitude localities of southeastern Australia. Although these localities are not necessarily time-equivalent, increasing evidence indicates that Lightning Ridge formed a ‘meeting point’ between the basal ornithopod-dominated localities in Victoria and the sauropod-iguanodontian faunas in Queensland to the north. PeerJ Inc. 2018-12-04 /pmc/articles/PMC6284429/ /pubmed/30533306 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6008 Text en © 2018 Bell et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited. |
spellingShingle | Paleontology Bell, Phil R. Herne, Matthew C. Brougham, Tom Smith, Elizabeth T. Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia |
title | Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia |
title_full | Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia |
title_fullStr | Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia |
title_full_unstemmed | Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia |
title_short | Ornithopod diversity in the Griman Creek Formation (Cenomanian), New South Wales, Australia |
title_sort | ornithopod diversity in the griman creek formation (cenomanian), new south wales, australia |
topic | Paleontology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6284429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30533306 http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6008 |
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