Re: Dromaeosaur

["Muttley" <drinker@alphalink.com.au>]

You will also find a more "affordable" fossil cast (if you're not happy with
the finish you can always repaint them) from "Palaeoclones" who are based in
the U.S. Museum quality replicas and used (no throwing gastroliths at me
please) in the JP-3 movie; during "Alan Grant's" "lecture" at the start of
the film (the movie went downhill from there - but the replicas are good!)

Muttley  (Australia)

Dunno about the rest of you guys, but I can't afford ten thousand bucks for
a replica (not on my pay anyway)




----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
To: "dinosaur" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 8:35 AM
Subject: RE: Dromaeosaur


> > From: owner-vrtpaleo@usc.edu [mailto:owner-vrtpaleo@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> > John Wood
> >
> > Dinocasts.com (http://www.dinocasts.com/catalog.asp) have good casts
(and
> > prices!). They have a casts of the Suchomimus skull. Does anyone
> > knows more
> > about this skull? Which specimen is it?
>
> Undescribed specimen, and not Suchomimus but a different genus (unless it
is
> more reconstructed than it looks, it is a spinosaurine (like Spinosaurus
and
> Irritator) rather than a baryonychine (like Baryonyx and Suchomimus)).
>
> I note with amusement that "Stegosauria" is used in place of
"Ornithischia",
> so that hadrosaurids and ceratopsians are now types of stegosaurs..
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Vertebrate Paleontologist
> Department of Geology Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
> University of Maryland College Park Scholars
> College Park, MD  20742
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