The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography

This is a direct copy of a SciPop or news article preserved here because things on the internet have a bad habit of disappearing when you try to find them again. Full credit is given to the original authors and the source.

– Matty

Abstract

The Late Cretaceous saw distinctly endemic dinosaur faunas evolve in the northern and southern hemispheres. The Laurasian continents of North America and Asia were dominated by hadrosaurid and ceratopsian ornithischians, with tyrannosaurs as apex predators.

Continue reading “The first duckbill dinosaur (Hadrosauridae: Lambeosaurinae) from Africa and the role of oceanic dispersal in dinosaur biogeography”