Re: Irritator

["Dan Lipkowitz" <lipkowit@midway.uchicago.edu>]

In message Tue, 16 Jan 1996 00:43:42 -0500, tuckr@digital.net  writes:

> Five years from now, Tom Holtz unearths a new, large theropod from
> beneath  an immense, black, prismatic slab of unknown, possibly
> extra-terrestrial,  origin. He describes his find (using as a word
> processor his new HAL 9000  computer, bought with funds from the largest
> NSF grant ever awarded) under  the name _Calvinosaurus wattersoni_. In
> _Mesozoic Meanderings #101_ do  you cite it as _Calvinosaurus wattersoni_
> Holtz 2001 _non_ Orenstein 1996?

Well, strictly speaking, I suggested this exact name to a couple of
paleo-people at a Dinosaur Society meeting a couple of years ago, and I
believe I mentioned it on the list sometime last year. I'll let the others
take the credit 'till my bitter and scathing autobiography comes out, though.

As promised, I've finished the G.G. Simpson novella, _The Dechronization of
Sam Magruder_.  Not the highest of high art, but certainly a worthwhile read
for interested parties, and a fascinating peek into the author's mind. It
seems to have been written sometime between 1970 and 1980, and reflects
Simpson's opinions of the new theories of the times, as well as where he
thought paleontology might be in the 22nd century. If you can bear the price
tag, check it out!


  Dan Lipkowitz
   student o' paleontology