Saurapods (longnecks) less diverse in Australia?

September 24, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

Interesting speculation from the Dinosaur@usc.edu mailing list.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200509/s1465753.htm

Dozens of dinosaur bones have been unearthed in western Queensland in
what is being described as one of the state’s most successful fossil
digs.

Scientists from the Queensland Museum and volunteers from the Australian
Age of Dinosaurs worked on the two-week dig near Winton.

One of the coordinators David Elliott says some very large bones were
discovered, well-preserved in solid rock....

“It’s a saurapod [sic], very large one, a lot of material. We know
there’d be a couple of dozen bones there at least.”

Dann Pigdon commented:

 It seems that sauropod material is coming thick and fast from the Black
Soils now… or at least, by Australian standards! It would be
interesting to see whether they are all from closely related fauna
(which might indicate that Oz had a low sauropod diversity for some
reason).

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