*****SPAM***** Re: New sauropod refs: Rinconsaurus & Amygdalodon

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting bh480@scn.org:

> Rinconsaurus caudamirus gen. et sp. nov. (Dinosauria, 
> Sauropoda) is a new and slender Titanosauridae.

Curious specific name.  The translation of "caudamirus" would not be 'wonderful
tail', but something more like 'wonderful with respect to its tail'.

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> Amygdalodon is the only South 
> American evidence for a probable Early to early Middle 
> Jurassic global dispersal of basal eusauropodan sauropods.

Uh...and what's *Tehuelchesaurus*?

(OK, it may be Late Jurassic, but it's a South American basal eusauropod.)

Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan