Re: Khaan?

[HPB1956@aol.com]

Jaime Headden wrote regarding my question about the identity of  the "unnamed oviraptorid,
almost complete skeleton shown on Plate 15B in Gregory Paul's DA:

> I do not know the Deutsch pub in question

"Geo, das neue Bild der Erde" (Geo, the new picture of earth) is kind of a german edition of National Geographic.

> Note, however, there are two skeletons currently referred to *Khaan*,
> and the pictured one is the referred specimen, not the holotype.
> The holotype is nearly complete, including caudal series. 
> The specimen is  preserved so that the animal was laying on it's left side,
> right side exposed. The reverse in the holotype.

Does somebody knows if there's a decent picture of the holotype available (IGM 100/973) on the Internet?

BTW if anybody is interested I put the image of Khaan (IGM 100/1002) which I saw 4 years ago on my homepage.

You can view it directly under
http://www.hpbredow.de/palaeo/images/genera/khaan/khaan_small.jpg
http://www.hpbredow.de/palaeo/images/genera/khaan/khaan_medium.jpg
http://www.hpbredow.de/palaeo/images/genera/khaan/khaan_large.jpg

> Hope this helps

Yes and thank you. Four years ago I saw the picture of this then unnamed oviraptorid in Geo and wondered
when this wonderful specimen would be described. So I instantly recogized it in DA, albeit this picture is 
black and white only, smaller and with sides reversed. Now this question has been answered.

Cheers


Heinz Peter Bredow

Bremen/Germany