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Follow up (was RE: Happy "Capitalsaurus" Day!)
> From: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. [mailto:tholtz@geol.umd.edu]
>
> > From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> > Williams, Tim
> >
> > Three cheers! "Capitalsaurus" as been designated as the
> Official Dinosaur
> > of D.C.
>
> I do not know if that bill was ever passed.
Just checked: the bill was passed Feb. 6, 2001. See:
http://www.dcwatch.com/federcit/fed0106.htm#Is%20This%20Resolution%20Necessa
ry
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland College Park Scholars
College Park, MD 20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone: 301-405-4084 Email: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
Fax (Geol): 301-314-9661 Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796
> -----Original Message-----
> > To commemorate this special occasion, everyone should go and find the
> > crappiest dinosaur fossil they can lay their hands on, and give it a new
> > name. I just can't get enough of those _nomina nuda_ clogging
> up dinosaur
> > taxonomy.
>
> Here, here!!
>
> > (Stop Press: I had thought that "Capitalsaurus" was based on a
> > non-diagnostic tail vertebra. However, I'm pleased to see from
> > the drawing
> > at the website that "Capitalsaurus" is now known from a
> complete skeleton.
> > Tom Lipka has been busy!)
>
> Of course it is just a non-diagnostic tail vert, and of course
> this is just a nomen nudum. It just happens to have a very...
> enthusiastic supporter.
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Vertebrate Paleontologist
> Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
> University of Maryland College Park Scholars
> College Park, MD 20742
> http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
> http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
> Phone: 301-405-4084 Email: tholtz@geol.umd.edu
> Fax (Geol): 301-314-9661 Fax (CPS-ELT): 301-405-0796
>