Re: Discovery Channel's "Beasts in Your Back Yard"

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Dear All,
    In all fairness, they are apparently not addressing the question of 
whether fossil material of dinosaurs can be found in a given area, but 
rather what well known genera might have "lived" in that geographic area.  
Glaciers or erosion in general may have swept a given area completely clean 
of Mesozoic deposits, but that obviously doesn't mean such areas were 
lifeless in the Mesozoic.   Unfortunately the phrase "in your backyard" 
could be taken literally to mean that such fossils might be found in the 
area, but I don't think that's what they really meant.
     But there are definitely some inaccuracies (no big surprise).  And I 
had to laugh when I read what they had as the "Paleoenvironment" for 
Tyrannosaurus:  "Where there were lots of prey."   WOW!!  In that case, I 
guess they should be found worldwide.  <snicker>   :-)
                 ----Cheers,   Ken
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> From: christopher robert noto <crnoto@midway.uchicago.edu>
> Reply-To: crnoto@midway.uchicago.edu
> To: Ray Stanford <dinotracker@earthlink.net>
> CC: Dinosaur Mailing List <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Re: Discovery Channel's "Beasts in Your Back Yard"
> Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 11:01:40 -0500 (CDT)
>
> I think that because we know that relevant dinosaur fossils are not found
> everywhere in the US, the Discovery Channel took some liberties in
> generalizing the dinosaur distribution database in order to make it
> relevant to  everyone.  I doubt many people would be impressed if a "no
> significant material" message popped up instead of a name.  I live in
> Chicago and they said Hadrosaurus lived around here, though I know very
> few (if any) Cretaceous terrestrial rocks outcrop in Chicago.  We're a
> Paleozoic town.
>
> Chris
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