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Dinosaur family hails from Texas

The oldest known hadrosaur fossil, found in Texas, opens up the possibility that these duck-billed dinosaurs evolved in North America, not Asia.

References:

Head, J.J. 1998. A new species of basal hadrosaurid (Dinosauria, ornithischia) from the Cenomanian of Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 18(December):718.

Sources:

Jason J. Head
Southern Methodist University
Department of Geological Sciences
Dallas, TX 75275

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 8, February 20, 1999, p. 127. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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