Re: dino fossils above human's

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

At 06:04 AM 3/12/98 -0500, morocom@email.msn.com wrote:
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>>My (!)scripture teacher said something about dinosaur remains being
>>found ABOVE human remains.  Is this true?
>
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>Well, yes and no. There are supposed fossilized human skulls from the
>Carboniferous period (before dinosaurs). I have seen many photos, and they
>do look like human skulls. There was recently a long thread about 'Ed
>Conrad' (the nickname for the 1st skull found) at talk.origins.

Oh, ugh!!  Can we PLEASE not bring Ed Conrad (which is the name of the
person who claimed to have found the skull, not the nickname of the skull
itself) onto dinosaur-l?  Ed's claims are dubious (to be polite), and any
and all paleontologists and geologists who have examined the material and
offered alternative explanations (based on morphology, thin sections, etc.)
have been claimed to be part of an international conspiracy.  (Check out
talk.origins and sci.bio.paleontology archives to check this out for
yourself, if you have a few weeks to kill: there has been one of the longest
running, most voluminous threads on t.o and s.b.p).

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