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A pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Madagascar and a Laurasia–Gondwanaland connection in the Cretaceous

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THE discovery of a pachycephalosaurid dinosaur in the Upper Cretaceous of Madagascar is reported here. This finding casts new light on the existence of a land connection (or several such connections) between Laurasia and Gondwanaland sometime in the Lower or Mid-Cretaceous. Hitherto this family of dome-headed ornithischians had only been known from the Northern Hemisphere: from the Lower Cretaceous of England1 and the Upper Cretaceous of North America2 and East Asia3.

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  1. Museum of Comparative Zoology and Department of Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138

    HANS-DIETER SUES

  2. Institut de Paléontologie, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, 8 Rue de Buffon, 75005, Paris, France

    PHILIPPE TAQUET

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SUES, HD., TAQUET, P. A pachycephalosaurid dinosaur from Madagascar and a Laurasia–Gondwanaland connection in the Cretaceous. Nature 279, 633–635 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/279633a0

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