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COLBERT ON COELOPHYSIS

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Subject: COLBERT ON COELOPHYSIS
From: darren.naish@port.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 13:00:53 +0000
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Randall wrote..

> The illustrations in Colbert 1989 are very inaccurate.  Paul has made
> several excellent skull reconstructions, and Tykowski profusely
> illustrated his thesis, but, accurate illustrations of the postcrania
> of C. bauri have yet to be desired.

I heard that some of the stuff Colbert illustrates might not even be 
dinosaurian. Certainly some of his diagrams don't match the actual 
specimens. Sankar Chatterjee is supposed to have a phd student re-
doing _Coelophysis_ - can anyone confirm?

DARREN NAISH 
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