THE HYPSILOPHODONTIDAE FROM SOUTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA

• Rich Thomas H.

  Museum Victoria

• VickersRich Patricia

  Earth Sciences Department and Monash Science Centre, Monash University

Abstract

A small collection of hypsilophodontid dinosaurs consisting primarily of isolated bones and teeth, has been made over the past two decades from the late Early Cretaceous coastal outcrops in southeastern Australia. Fragmentary though the bulk of this material is, on dental evidence it is possible to recognize three different genera and species Leaellynasaura amicagraphica, Atlascopcosaurus loadsi and Qantassaurus intrepidus gen. et sp. nov. The femora are allocated to L. amicagraphica and Fulgurotherium australe. The femora of F. australe show a marked diversity in size and shape suggesting that when the material assigned to this form species is better known, it could well be divided into three or more genera.

Journal

• National Science Museum monographs

  National Science Museum monographs 15 167-180, 1999

  National Science Museum

Details

• CRID: 1570009752043109632
• NII Article ID: 110004312494
• NII Book ID: AA1102331X
• ISSN: 13429574
• Text Lang: en
• Data Source:
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