Re: DINOSAURS FROM XINJIANG, CHINA

["Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>]

Rutger Jansma wrote-
> Another weblink, maybe it's better I wait the next time for some more 
> stuff,
> but here is it anyway:
>
> http://www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/clark/china.html
>
> It covers two recent expeditions to this area, so if any of you are
> interested, don't hessitate and visit!

I've been to this site before, I'm uncertain if someone gave me the link or 
if I found it on my own. It's a pretty cool site and I think everyone should 
go to at least once just to look at the pictures.

Mickey Mortimer wrote-
> The basal coelurosaur with the ectopterygoid pocket and troodontid-
> like postorbital is here-
> http://www.gwu.edu/~clade/faculty/clark/images/skull.jpg

IMHO, the lacrimal is remniscient of Byronosaurus.

Tim Williams wrote-
> Nice site (wish I had more time today to peruse it).  It contains a
> lot of interesting info, e.g. Jim Clark mentions _Protoavis_ as a
> possible basal coelurosaur.

I saw that the first time I was there, that is kind of odd.  Does anyone 
know why 'Protoavis' would be considered a basal coelurosaur?

> The "Dinosaurs from Xinjiang" site also answers a question I've often
> wondered: Who was General Tso of "General Tso's chicken" fame?

For me, this brings about a more important question: Why were his chickens 
so important? ;-)


Nick Gardner
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