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COMPARISONS of Upper Jurassic ornithopod dinosaurs show that Dysalotosaurus lettow-vorbecki (Tendaguru Beds, Tanzania, East Africa) is referable to the genus Dryosaurus (Morrison Formation, western North America). This extended distribution of Dryosaurus provides additional evidence for a land connection between Laurasia and Gondwanaland sometime in the Upper Jurassic.
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GALTON, P. The ornithopod dinosaur Dryosaurus and a Laurasia–Gondwanaland connection in the Upper Jurassic. Nature 268, 230–232 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1038/268230a0
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