Sauropods from Antarctica!

[itstwentybelow]

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111219102054.htm

They were bound to be discovered there sooner or later, so now we can give Sauropoda a global distribution. Can't wait for the toy figure. Enjoy!

[Seijun]

If I am reading the article correctly, they only have a portion of the tail. If that is the case, I don't see how a toy could be made of it. But still a very neat find!

Was antarctica very cold at the time this dinosaur was alive?

[stoneage]

Dec 20, 2011 0:30:07 GMT Seijun said:

If I am reading the article correctly, they only have a portion of the tail. If that is the case, I don't see how a toy could be made of it. But still a very neat find!

Was antarctica very cold at the time this dinosaur was alive?

All they have is fragmentary evidence of Agustinia, but that didn't stop them from making a toy of it.

And the Antarctic was sub-tropical like Florida.

[paleoferroequine]

Dec 20, 2011 0:30:07 GMT Seijun said:

If I am reading the article correctly, they only have a portion of the tail. If that is the case, I don't see how a toy could be made of it. But still a very neat find!

Was antarctica very cold at the time this dinosaur was alive?

There were no polar ice caps but the axial tilt was still there so 6 months of night would have seen temps pretty low. Of course 6 months of daylight also.
Whatever happened to that Jurassic Antarctic sauropod report by William Hammer in 2003? Or was that before Antarctica completely separated from Gondwana?

[Horridus]

Dec 20, 2011 1:08:06 GMT stoneage said:

All they have is fragmentary evidence of Agustinia, but that didn't stop them from making a toy of it.

Yeah, this is true of a lot of dinosaurs. Agustinia is known from armour, bits of vertebrae from different regions of the body and lower leg bones.

Cool news, by the way.