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Re: Life's scale reduction since the Dinosaurs



In a message dated 96-01-26 09:06:15 EST, Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
writes:

>>Sorry for the mental lapse.  BTW, what do you mean "unless Amphicoelias 
>>[fragillimus]  was real?"  Even the one dorsal vertebra indicates that 
>>there was SOMETHING very large wandering around back then!
> 
>It turns out that the broken neural arch was never even collected!  No
>photographs, not lithographs, only field measurements and a line drawing.
>It is not unreasonable that it was real, but it cannot be confirmed (unless
>Ken Carpenter or someone else manages to find new bits of it!).

That's interesting. So it wasn't lost after all.