[dinosaur] Swiss dinosaur is new taxon + Utahraptor contest + more

[Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com>]

Ben Creisler

bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

More on the Triassic plateosaurid from Schleitheim in Switzerland:

Swiss dinosaur is now identified as "definitely" a new taxon (although the skull is still lacking, material is adequate to show its distinctness), related to Plateosaurus, estimated at 12 meters long; will be officially named in a scientific journal, probably in May; paleontologists may do another dig for more material at the site (on private land)  (with audio) (in German)

 

https://www.srf.ch/news/regional/zuerich-schaffhausen/keine-zweifel-mehr-schleitheim-hat-seinen-eigenen-saurier

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London Archaeopteryx on tour in Japan

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39198831

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Utahraptor "cartoon" competition: How the Utahraptors ended up in the bonebed, in a humorous way. 

https://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-utahraptor-project-competition.html

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Funding for a Dinosaur Museum & Research Center at the Flaming Cliffs in Mongolia

https://mongoliandinosaurs.org/project/a-dinosaur-museum-research-center-at-the-flaming-cliffs/

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Ichthyosaurus species clarified

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-ancient-reptile-mystery-extinct-species.html

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Montana lizard that lived with dinosaurs

http://www.montana.edu/news/16766/msu-paleontologist-leads-expedition-that-unearths-new-species-of-ancient-iguana-like-lizard

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Preview of new Dinosaurs of China postage stamps to be issued in May (in Chinese)

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2017-03-08/doc-ifycaasy7978115.shtml

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New primitive bony fish from Silurian of China

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-ancient-southern-china-fish-evolved.html

http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2017/03/08/the-now-older-age-of-fishes-new-bony-fish-from-the-silurian-of-china/