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Dinosaur fossils found in Greenland

Adam Khor · 2012-07-31 00:32:22

http://www.ionline.pt/iciencia/paleontologo-portugues-descobre-achados-dinossauro-na-gronelandia The article mentions plateosaurs, as well as fitosaurs and turtles. Anyone knows if dinosaur remains had been found there previously?

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31-07-2012 1:32am

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Adam Khor

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http://www.ionline.pt/iciencia/paleontologo-portugues-descobre-achados-dinossauro-na-gronelandia

The article mentions plateosaurs, as well as fitosaurs and turtles. Anyone knows if dinosaur remains had been found there previously?

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#2 31-07-2012 11:06pm
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Greenland is huge so likely to have lots of buried critters, except what's been carved away by the glaciers.

What it does have is some of the oldest if not the oldest rocks on the planet. And signs of very early life in isotope ratios IIRC

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#3 01-08-2012 1:06am
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Well during the Triassic Greenland would have been roughly at the same latitude as Ireland is now so you probably could have got some stuff going on there around that time. But yeah much evidence will have been removed by glaciation.

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