[dinosaur] Patagotitan size + Tsintaosaurus + Moradisaurus + more

Subject: [dinosaur] Patagotitan size + Tsintaosaurus + Moradisaurus + more

From: Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 11:58:26 -0700

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Some recent items:

Fossil Friday Roundup: August 11, 2017

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/08/11/fossil-friday-roundup-august-11-2017

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More comments on Patagotitan size "hype"

https://svpow.com/2017/08/10/some-further-thoughts-on-patagotitan/

http://theropoda.blogspot.com/2017/08/il-mio-dinosauro-e-piu-grosso-del-tuo.html

https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2017/08/10/patagotitan-and-the-problem-of-body-mass-estimation/

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Discovery of Tsintaosaurus at Laiyang by Chinese paleontologst C.C. Young (Yang Zhongjian) (in Chinese)

http://www.uua.cn/show-13-8287-1.html

Woman finds Triceratops bone in Wyoming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ZHD8HnR4g

http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/can-learning-from-the-past-help-us-stop-a-mass-extinction/science-technology

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Russian plesiosaur specialist Nikolay Zverkov confirms plesiosaur fossil (36 vertebrae) from Mangistau region of Kazakhstan, sent to St. Petersburg's museum; there are plans to excavate more of the skeleton in the future (in Russian)

http://www.dknews.kz/in-the-newspaper/37182-unikalnaya-nakhodka.html

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Moradisaurus, a Permian captorhinomorph found on the island of Mallorca by a German tourist (in German)

[click on 'Dossier komplett anzeigen' for the full text]

http://www.scinexx.de/dossier-detail-829-5.html

http://www.scinexx.de/dossier-829-1.html

Documentary filmed using high resolution of Cal Orck'o dinosaur tracksite in Bolivia as part of forthcoming series for National Geographic (in Spanish)

http://correodelsur.com/cultura/20170811_cal-orcko-es-el-fotograma-de-lo-que-fue-el-cretacico

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Irish tetrapod tracks

https://whatsinjohnsfreezer.com/2017/08/11/valentia/

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Michael Benton comment on fossilization of soft tissues

https://academic.oup.com/nsr/article/4081683/Fossilisation-of-soft-tissues

NMNH Mammal Hall update part 2

https://extinctmonsters.net/2017/08/11/a-21st-century-hall-of-mammals-part-2/

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2017 INTERNATIONAL CHRONOSTRATIGRAPHIC CHART (latest version) as pdf

http://www.stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2017-02.pdf