More on Rahona, and introducing Shuuvia

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

For those who want more Rahona news, you can check out the following website:

http://www.abcnews.com/sections/science/DailyNews/dinobird0317.html

Also included there is an announcment of the paper by Chiappe et al. in this
weeks (today's) Nature on Shuuvia deserti, a kind of new alvarezsaurid.
(Chiappe and colleagues have reanalysed the hypodigm of Mononykus, and found
that there are at least two genera there.  Shuuvia (hope I spelled that
properly) is the form with a complete skull (hoorah!), and some of whose
postcrania was described (as Mononykus) in the Memoirs of the Queensland
Museum vol. 39, issue 3 (the Gondwana dinosaur volume).  A photo of the
skull can be found on the website.

Good time to be an early bird... :-)

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
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