[Geology2] Dinosaur news

Scientists announce discovery of new dinosaur genus in SW China
Xinhua News Agency [China], 2010-10-09
Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur genus -- a meat-eating
theropod -- in southwest China's Yunnan province, an expert from the
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) said Saturday. The fossils of the
dinosaur were unearthed at Longshan, Lufeng county in the Yi Autonomous
Prefecture of Chuxiong, in early September, said Dong Zhiming, a
researcher from the CAS's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and
Paleoanthropology. The new dinosaur was estimated to have lived on earth
about 180 million years ago, or during the early Jurassic Period, and
was related to the Coelophysis, Dong said. "The dinosaur is at least 120
cm long and 70 cm high, and it has a long tail and sharp teeth," he
added.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-10/09/c_13548571.htm

New fossil suggests dinosaurs not so fierce after all
PhysOrg.com [USA], October 6, 2010

A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did
not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by
taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their
competitors. Tim Rowe, professor of paleontology at The University of
Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, led the effort to
describe the new dinosaur along with co-authors Hans-Dieter Sues,
curator of vertebrate paleontology at the National Museum of Natural
History in Washington, DC and Robert R. Reisz, professor and chair of
biology at the University of Toronto. The description appears in the
online edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B on Oct.
6.

http://www.physorg.com/news205554095.html

One of France's largest dinosaur fossil deposits found in the Charente
region PhysOrg.com [USA], October 4, 2010

The first excavations at the Audoin quarries in the town of Angeac, in
the Charente region of south-western France, have confirmed that the
site is one of the richest dinosaur fossil deposits in the country.
Coordinated by the Musée d'Angouleme and the Géosciences Rennes
laboratory (France), the project involved researchers from CNRS and the
Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (French Natural History Museum).
With more than 400 bones brought to light, this site is remarkable both
for the quantity of discoveries and their state of preservation. The
quarries have yielded a wide variety of fossils dating from the Lower
Cretaceous Period, dating back 130 million years.

http://www.physorg.com/news205410682.html

Oldest evidence of dinosaurs found in Polish footprints
PhysOrg.com [USA], October 6, 2010

The 246 million year old footprints of Sphingopus isp. from the Early
Anisian of Baranów, Poland are associated with a trackway that is even
more dinosaur-like in that the gait was bipedal.These tracks are the
oldest record of a large-bodied (track length 15 cm) and bipedal member
of the dinosaur lineage.

http://www.physorg.com/news205555288.html

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