RE: When dinos roamed

["Tracy L. Ford" <dino.hunter@home.com>]

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Rob
Gay
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:07 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: When dinos roamed

>The fossils themselves are very weathered, AFAIK, and the most common are
>those of vertebrae.  By not being well-preserved I mean that there are not
>a lot of complete skeletons and many of the fine structures are not
>preserved.  And, as far as I know, there are remains of 37 ichthyosaurs.  I
>may be wrong, though.<
Ah, thank you. I'm going off of decade-old memories from a one day trip. I
think I'll trust your judgement on this one.

>Camp, C.L., 1976, Large Ichthyosaurs from the upper Triassic of Nevada,
>Palaeontographica 170.<
Thanks!
Peace,
Rob<<]

Revised and shortened by

Kosch, B. F., 1990, A revision of the skeletal reconstruction of Shonisaurus
popularis (Reptilia; Ichthyosauria): Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, v.
10, n. 4, p. 512-514.

Tracy L. Ford
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