Re: Disney's Dinosaur

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

Raymond Thaddeus C. Ancog wrote:

> I for one am glad Disney chose two lesser known taxa over the popular
> Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops. I grilled my friends about the dino's in the
> trailer and one of them did get Carnotaurus correctly (albeit after I said
> it was the "flesh-bull"), though he missed out on Pachyrhinosaurus.

Some further lesser known species include _Microceratops_, _Stygimoloch_, 
_Ichthyornis_, etc... (for those of you that didn't know).

> unless I'm mistaken, was that gliding reptile Longisquama? It was depicted
> with bulging, chameleon-like eyes, as in the April 1975 issue of Scientific
> American (Bob Bakker's cover story "Dinosaur Renaissance").

Yes, indeed that was most likely _Longisquama_ that you saw. It is mentioned 
on the official webisite in the cast of characters.  Good eye!

-Jordan Mallon

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