Re: Reuters does its math on new dinosaur

[Finback <goodmr@pop.ses.curtin.edu.au>]

At 12:54 pm 27/05/00 EDT, MKIRKALDY@aol.com wrote:
>> Fossil of one-ton dinosaur found in Buenos Aires

>  
>> BUENOS AIRES, May 27 (Reuters) - Fossilized remains of a massive 
>> armadillo-like dinosaur were discovered during excavation to extend a 
>> subway line in the west end of Buenos Aires, La Nacion newspaper 
>> reported on Saturday. 
>
>> Paleontologists Fernando Novas and Augustin Scanferla of the 
>> Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences identified the fossil as belonging 
>> to a 365-pound (800-kg) glyphodont, an armadillo-like dinosaur that had 
                                ^^^^^^^^^

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this a glyptodont? And if so... when the
slag did they become dinosaurs?

Unless, in my absentia, they found new ankylosaurid material with a new name...
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