Re: paper ref stuff.

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

You wrote:

<Could anyone on this list be so kind as to provide me
with either the following listed papers themselves (in
some form or another),>

  Dude,

  Not to try to to make you hoof it about your burg to
get these yourself, but some of these are in journals
that are very easy to get, some brilliantly cheap or
free, e.g. _Nature_, _Science_, _the Auk_,
_Paleobiology_, _Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology_,
_American Musuem Novitates_ ... all of which will
publish on dinosaurs to one degree or another. If
that's what you want. I like looking at a sheer
diversity of fossil forms like snakes and monkeys,
becuase they are so cool.... :) ILL on these journals
will probably be free unless your library charges
upfront, but I think that is very unlikely.

  There are also services with the institutions to
purchasing the articles or issues themselves, but this
can be expensive and include things you may not want.
As for _Acta Paleontologia Polonica_ or _Oryctos_,
these are European journals from which no return is
inevitable. They should be relatively accessible,
however.

<Le Loeuff, Buffetaut, Mechin, & Mechin-Salessy,
1992.> 

  First description of the *Variraptor* material, does
not describe taxon.

<Le Loeuff and Buffetaut 1998.>

  This is *Variraptor,* and if you're after simple
descriptions, you'll go for this one first [Eng]. The
other paper is techinical and more for historic
purposes, and good if you actually want to pursue
analysis.

<Laurent, Cavin and Bilotte, 1999.>

  This is a paper I'd like to get my hands on in the
near future, being a biogeographic paper on the Var
Valley forms, including *Variraptr* and some new forms
that will be very interesting to study (read: Hateg,
Romania).

<Adasaurus Barsbold 1977
 A. mongoliensis Barsbold 1983
 po= Dromaeosaurus mongoliensis Paul 1988>

  The first paper is part of a analysis on
opisthopubic pelves by Barsbold, the second is his big
Mongolian theropod monograph, 120pp., and the
description of *Adasaurus* is spread over several
sections. There is a translation online at

  http://www.uhmc.sunysb.edu/anatomicalsci/paleo/
  .

<Perle, A., Norell, M., and Clark, J. 1999. A new
maniraptoran Theropod- Achillobator giganticus
(Dromaeosauridae)- from the Upper Cretaceous of
Burkhant, Mongolia. Contribution no. 101 of the
Mongolian-American Paleontological Project.>

  I have a feeling you'll need to talk to a list
member about this one. The paper is actually pretty
nice for one of the strangest Mongolian forms yet.
BTW, list, there was mention in the above paper of an
abstract in the JVP 15 volume for this form, but I've
not heard of it previously, and cannot get the whole
volume on ILL (I'd rather not spend a week waiting for
a single page photocopy when my ILL-limit is 2 at a
time! Argh!!). The abstract as listed by Perle et al.
also includes a genus name for the form, and would
this then constitute an objective junior synonym of
*Achillobator*?

  Not to be a damper, Caleb, but most students really
do footwork to find their reference material; I've
gone into debt before to do it (don't ask, and it's
not as serious as you think, it was merely immediate
cash flow). Also, if you have material that a fellow
researcher might need, you could arrange a trade. This
will speed things up considerably.

=====
Jaime "James" A. Headden

  Dinosaurs are horrible, terrible creatures! Even the
  fluffy ones, the snuggle-up-at-night-with ones. You think
  they're fun and sweet, but watch out for that stray tail
  spike! Down, gaston, down, boy! No, not on top of Momma!

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