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**Adam Khor** · 31-07-2012, 01:32

http://www.ionline.pt/iciencia/paleo...na-gronelandia

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

**Capt'n Midnight** · 31-07-2012, 23:06

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

Guyett · 01-08-2012, 01:06

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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Adam Khor Moderator Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 2,576 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Palaeontology, Zoology	Dinosaur fossils found in Greenland http://www.ionline.pt/iciencia/paleo...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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Capt'n Midnight 00:00 Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 40,663 Adverts \| Friends Mod: Biology, Lifehacking, Popular Science, Windows	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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Guyett Registered User Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 48 Adverts \| Friends	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.