http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/09/say-hello-to-sinoceratops/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/09/say-hello-to-sinoceratops/comment-page-1/#comment-2719 Mike Walley Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:23:07 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=3850#comment-2719 The discovery of Sinoceratops may lead to a revision of the hypothesis that very few of the basal Ceratopsians from Asia evolved into the huge, shield-necked, multi-horned rhinoceros-like animals of North America. However, if it is accepted that some time during the Late Cretaceous there was eastward migration into North America, then could it not also be possible that already established large members of the Centrosaurinae clade could have migrated the other way i.e. from the North America into Asia? The discovery of Sinoceratops may lead to a revision of the hypothesis that very few of the basal Ceratopsians from Asia evolved into the huge, shield-necked, multi-horned rhinoceros-like animals of North America. However, if it is accepted that some time during the Late Cretaceous there was eastward migration into North America, then could it not also be possible that already established large members of the Centrosaurinae clade could have migrated the other way i.e. from the North America into Asia?

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/09/say-hello-to-sinoceratops/comment-page-1/#comment-2675 adam Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:20:46 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=3850#comment-2675 to be exact it was in Late Cretaceous what is now china. Wow, my dictionary for all these names and terms is spinning my head. to be exact it was in Late Cretaceous what is now china.
Wow, my dictionary for all these names and terms is spinning my head.

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