Appalacian dinosaurs are underrated

[Brocc21]

So I live in what was Appalachia. The ancient continent from the  cretaceous  And we had some very interesting fauna. In the late Cretaceous Ankylosaurs dominated the west but in Appalachia nodosaurs stayed strong. We had the semi popular dinosaur Appalachiasaurus and the weird primitive dryptosaurus. We had leptoceratopcians and sauronithalestes and ornithamimids. We even had the first hadrosaurs. We had the giant hypsabema Missouri's state dinosaur. Yet we are forgotten and over shadowed. We had the first dinosaur discovered in America. I'm actually righting a little thing about Appalachia when's it's finished I'll show you. What's your opinions?

[Lizerd]

Yep, Appalachia is underrated. My guess is that stuff like T.rex overshadowed it. Another issue with its notability is that not much news comes out of it that is extremely interesting. That is my guess, but I'm excited to see what you've written

[Cretaceous Crab]

I would definitely be interested in reading it. And if its helpful, I have a spreadsheet of all fauna for late Cretaceous Appalachia, if you're interested. I can email it to you.

[Lizerd]

I would love to see it! Please share it.

[Brocc21]

Thanks for wanting to see my stuff but don't try and get to exited. I'm an amateur at this stuff at best. My art isn't great and my righting isn't on the level of Raptor Red. It's probably going to be more of a fun little illustrated book put to gather with fricken staples  but thanks any ways  .

[Lizerd]

Lol, I do good writing and drawing but my public speaking is legendarily bad. I'm that kid who when to many people look at me I hide under a table 
so, I would say go ahead and share it with us

[Brocc21]

Its not quite finished yet but once im done I'll show you guys

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Something that never happened  :/

[VD231991]

So I live in what was Appalachia. The ancient continent from the  cretaceous  And we had some very interesting fauna. In the late Cretaceous Ankylosaurs dominated the west but in Appalachia nodosaurs stayed strong. We had the semi popular dinosaur Appalachiasaurus and the weird primitive dryptosaurus. We had leptoceratopcians and sauronithalestes and ornithamimids. We even had the first hadrosaurs. We had the giant hypsabema Missouri's state dinosaur. Yet we are forgotten and over shadowed. We had the first dinosaur discovered in America. I'm actually righting a little thing about Appalachia when's it's finished I'll show you. What's your opinions?

Although the genus Hadrosaurus which lived on the eastern rim of the ancient landmass of Appalachia in New Jersey during the early Campanian is the eponym for Hadrosauridae, the known material of the holotype of this historically important dinosaur preserves little craniodental material, and in some older publications Kritosaurus and Gryposaurus were once considered synonyms of Hadrosaurus, but we know that neither of the former two genera are closely related to Hadrosaurus. I agree that many people don't think too much about many dinosaur taxa found in the Late Cretaceous of Appalachia, perhaps because those dinosaurs were found in coastal and epipelagic marine deposits, but it should be emphasized that the dinosaurs found in the marine deposits of the Niobrara Formation in the American Midwest are also overshadowed by the armored dinosaurs and hadrosaurs from Laramidia.

As a side note, Brownstein (2018) regards the Missouri state dinosaur Parrosaurus (originally classified as a sauropod and initially named Neosaurus before being renamed due to Neosaurus having been already used for a sphenacodontid pelycosaur) as a distinct genus from the dubious taxon Hypsibema (with which Parrosaurus was synonymized by Baird and Horner [1979]), and an abstract presented at the SVP 2020 conference by Peter Makovicky and colleagues (details of which have not yet been published) agrees with Brownstein that Parrosaurus shares no characters with Hypsibema to the exclusion of other hadrosaurids from Appalachia.

Baird, D., and Horner, J.R., 1979. Cretaceous dinosaurs of North Carolina. Brimleyana 2: 1-28

Brownstein, C.D., 2018. The biogeography and ecology of the Cretaceous non-avian dinosaurs of Appalachia. Palaeontologia Electronica 21.1.5A: 1-56.