Re: BLM announces `major' dinosaur find in Utah

[Jean-Michel BENOIT <s.aegyptiacus@wanadoo.fr>]

birds?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "don ohmes" <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 11:02 PM
Subject: RE: BLM announces `major' dinosaur find in Utah


> Heh. "... flying reptiles..."?
>
> Oh oh...
>
> Don
>
> --- On Wed, 6/18/08, Dino Guy Ralph <dinoguy@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Dino Guy Ralph <dinoguy@sbcglobal.net>
> > Subject: RE: BLM announces `major' dinosaur find in Utah
> > To: koreke77@yahoo.de, dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Date: Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 1:12 PM
> > The Associated Press article states:
> > Animal burrows and petrified tree trunks 6 feet in diameter
> > were found
> > nearby. The site doesn't contain any new species but
> > offers scientists the
> > chance to learn more about the ecology of that time, said
> > Scott Foss, a BLM
> > paleontologist.
> >
> > Regarding "animal burrows," Evelyn Sobielski
> > [koreke77@yahoo.de] writes:
> > "Aha?"
> >
> > See
> > http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080617-utah-dinosaurs_2.html
> >
> > Quote:
> > The site's sandstone also encases freshwater clams,
> > petrified trees, and
> > other preserved matter. "There is potential that there
> > could be burrows that
> > contain fossil mammals. We have petrified logs -- a whole
> > group of things
> > that I think are going to tell us something very detailed
> > about this
> > environment," (Matthew) Bonnan (of Western Illinois
> > University) said.
> >
> > So there _may_ be burrows there.
> >
> > Dino Guy Ralph
> > Docent at the California Academy of Sciences
> > Dinosaur and Fossil Education
> > Member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology


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