RE: Sereno lecture 3 Feb, University of Michigan

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Nick Pharris
>
> Dear all,
> 
> Thought you might be interested in this.
> 
> Paul Sereno was on campus here at the University of Michigan (Ann 
> Arbor) to give
> a lecture on "Dinosaurs and Drifting Continents" this past 
> Tuesday.  My notes
> are kind of sparse, but the highlights included:

[snip]

> -"Wrinkle-Face", the 90-million-year-old Nigerien abelisaur, due 
> out, I believe,
> some time this year;

[snip]

> As I was talking with Sereno at the reception, he mentioned that he had a
> family-level ID on the small theropod from Niger--this critter is 
> going to be
> very important to our understanding of a certain clade of small Gondwanan
> meat-eaters!

Quite so, and good to hear!

> On a personal note, Jeff Wilson's introduction featured a 
> sonogram labeled "Lyon
> and Sereno (in press)".
> 
WOW!!  Even much better to hear! Congrats to them!!!

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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