Setting the record straight (was Re: CLADISTICS AND PALEONTOLOGIST(S))

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 02:32 PM 4/27/98 EDT, Peter Buchholz wrote:

> But, here I shall wax philosophical...  Some
>people want to chose Paul Sereno or Tom Holtz, and although the'r contribution
>has been substantial, the fact that they got their phd's in 87 and 94
>respectively, would make me think that they'd do the bulk of their work in the
>upcoming century.

Thanks, and I certainly hope so!!

Just wanted to set the record straight, though: I defended on April 20, 1992
(one century and two days after Marsh published on his recognition that
Ornithomimus was a theropod, and not an ornithopod after all, but whose
counting... :-) and received my degree at the end of that year.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661