RE: New brontothere named after kaiju Gigan

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

Tom Holtz wrote:

<Etymology-The specific epithet references the large size of this species
 in comparison to Diplacodon elatus, the only other known species of the genus. 
'Gigan' is a fictional giant horned monster first 
appearing in the 1972 Japanese film, 'Godzilla versus Gigan' and other Godzilla 
films thereafter."

No indication if it had a chest buzzsaw or not...>

As if that's necessary?! It's a bloody 'nother Gojira reference! ... although a 
buzzsaw chest implement would be cool....

Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
The Bite Stuff (site v2)
http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race
has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion 
Backs)





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> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:33:20 -0500
> From: tholtz@umd.edu
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: New brontothere named after kaiju Gigan
>
> In the latest issue of JVP (Mihlbachler, M.C. 2011. A new Uintan horned 
> brontothere from Wyoming and the evolution of canine size
> and sexual dimorphism in the Brontotheriidae (Perissodactyla: Mammalia). JVP 
> 31: 202-214.
>
> http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1080/02724634.2011.539653
>
> "DIPLACODON GIGAN, new species
>
> Etymology-The specific epithet references the large size of this species in 
> comparison to Diplacodon elatus, the only other known
> species of the genus. 'Gigan' is a fictional giant horned monster first 
> appearing in the 1972 Japanese film, 'Godzilla versus Gigan'
> and other Godzilla films thereafter."
>
> No indication if it had a chest buzzsaw or not...
>
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
> Email: tholtz@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-4084
> Office: Centreville 1216
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>
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>
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