Re: New Sauropod

[Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Michael Schmidt wrote:

> Some of the people on this list are very quick to jump all over the evils 
> of commercial dealers.

I think your sentence says it all.  When there are evils committed by 
commercial dealers, they deserved to be jumped on - as quickly as possible.

> How about a little recognition when it's due.......this particular specimen 
> was made availble to Dr. Buffetaut by a commercial dealer, and is now 
> housed in a French museum.

I'll second that.  I wish all commercial dealers would take that route, so 
that all privately held specimens could be properly studied by 
paleontologists (e.g., the Maxburg specimen of _Archaeopteryx; the giant 
_Spinosaurus_ skull I keep on hearing about; the Fruita heterodontosaur 
[which may not be a heterodontosaur]; the complete skull of a head-hunted 
_Othnielia_; etc etc).

Cheers

Tim