Illustration:
Sauropelta - by Beri (graphite), Copyright © 2004-2005
BERI
Photograph
of Struthiosaurus austriacus (Bunzel
1870) fossil on display in Natural History Museum in
Vienna
Site:
Muthmannsdorf near Wiener Neustadt, Austria
http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/d/engvorschau.html
Struthiosaurus
might look like a cross between Edmontonia and
Sauropelta. Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Struthiosaurus References
s:
http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/dinos/de_4/5c97d69.htm
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Nodosaur
and possibly Rhabdodon finds in Quarry Stranice near
Slovenske Konjice
In the sediments of Quarry
Stranice (kamnoloma Stranice) near SlovenskeKonjice
(Campanian; gosauski razvoj) in north-east Slovenia,
fossils of single and colonial corals were found. In
addition to the corals, bivalves, fragments of sponges,
snail shells, ostracodes, briozoa, algae and foraminifera
were also found. On the west side of the site, near Lipa,
fragments of fish teeth, a crocodylian tooth and
the long bones of dinosaurs were discovered. These
fossils were first found in 1999 by Franc Pajtler, and
researched by Dr. Irena Debeljak. Dr. Debeljak (ZRC SAZU)
thinks the bones possibly belonged to a medium-sized
quadrupedal plant-eating dinosaur called a nodosaur, a
member of the family Ankylosauria. This is the second
discovery of dinosaurs in Slovenia. The first, near
Kozina, was in an area that was separated from Quarry
Stranice in the Upper Cretaceous by a sea, precluding a
comparison of the fauna from the two sites. The fossils
of dinosaurs,crocodylians, turtles and freshwater fish
indicate a rich vertebrate fauna at that time. The
nearest site to Stranice with nodosaur remains is in the
vicinity of Wienna (Muthmannsdorf -Wienerneustadt,
Avstria). The locality of Quarry Stranice (kamnoloma
Stranice) near Slovenske Konjice thus becomes an
important paleontological find.
The fossils are on display in the Natural History Museum
in Ljubljana:
http://www2.pms-lj.si/oddelki/paleontologija/stranice.html
English translation:
Berislav Krzic
Edited by: Brian Franczak
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