Re: paper info quest

[Oliver Wings <wings@uni-bonn.de>]

David Marjanovic wrote:
> 
> > "MUTATIO SOLUM PERPETUUM EST!"
> 
> mutatio is female, thus "mutatio sola perpetua est" ;-)

Sorry, but I believe mutatio is neuter... ;-)
Where did you get this information?


Mickey_Mortimer wrote:
> 
> Oliver Wings wrote-
> 
> > I assume the same animal is mentioned in:
> > Sanders and Carpenter, 1998. Gastroliths from a camarasaurid in the
> > Cedar Mountain Formation. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Abstracts
> > with program 18(3), 74A.
> 
> I wouldn't b so quick to assume that.  I haven't read the abstract, but a
> camarasaurid is known from the Cedar Mountain Formation (Britt and Stadtman
> 1996).  Cedarosaurus is brachiosaurid, of course.


Cited from the abstract: "A set of more than 70 rocks... has been
collected ... within the pelvic area of an undescribed, partially
quarried camarasaurid specimen in the Cedar Mountain Formation of
eastern Utah. The stones can be most parsimoniously interpreted as
gastroliths, making this the first set of gastroliths discovered in-situ
in the Cedar Mtn. Fm. ..."

I believe they found out about the sauropods true nature later. At least
I do know only one sauropod specimen from the Cedar Mountain Formation
in Utah which has gastroliths (some are even out of fragile sandstone
and siltstone) - and this is the brachiosaurid Cedarosaurus...

Any hints are welcome.
To make sure, I will ask Ken Carpenter about that.

Oliver
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