[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index][Subject Index][Author Index]
Re: Two Nose Horns? Re: Yahoo! News Story - Utah scientists find new dinosaur fossil - Yahoo! News
Ahh.
The news article sited below is quoted "The protruding fossil turned
out to be most of the skull of a ceratopsid, a smaller and older
relative of Triceratops." Centrosaurinae and Chasmosaurinae are two
clads of the ceratopsid clads. I know that Chasmosaurs are known at
least as far south as Texas in the El Picacho Formation
(Maastrichtian) of West Texas. I'm not sure about Centrosaurs
proper. Still sounds like typical reporting. Have fun at the SVP
party, Ehh!
It is snowing here on the Hell Creek Fm as I type this and my field
season is officially over. That is, until Indian summer kicks in:-)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061020/ap_on_sc/dinosaur_find
Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.cattleranch.org
On Oct 20, 2006, at 8:36 PM, Brad McFeeters wrote:
From: "franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com>
Reply-To: frank@blissnet.com
To: "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>, dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Two Nose Horns? Re: Yahoo! News Story - Utah
scientists find new dinosaur fossil - Yahoo! News
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:59:57 -0600
To quote the story, "The Utah Geological Survey said the fossil
is unique for having two nose horns. It also is the first of this
group of dinosaurs to have been found south of Montana."
Apparently, the Wyoming Lance Formation and the Texan Big Bend
Aguja Formation Ceratopsian specimens don't count. Typically
inaccurate reporting but I wonder if someone at the UGS gave them
that info.
Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming
www.cattleranch.org
The group of dinosaurs they are referring to is Centrosaurinae, not
Ceratopsia. I saw Kirkland's talk on it at SVP this morning.
_________________________________________________________________
Experience Live Search from your PC or mobile device today. http://
www.live.com/?mkt=en-ca