Re: [dinosaur] Sauropod teeth + Mirarce + Kakuru + Werner Janensch + Jura Museum closure + more

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

On Wed, Dec 5th, 2018 at 5:56 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:


> Lost Kakuru kujani toe bone found after 45 years, bought on internet and
> donated to South Australian Museum...

None of the articles I've read about this toe bone explain how it was assigned 
to *Kakuru*, given that the 
holotype is a tibia. The story of the toe bone being noticed in an opal shop by 
Neville Pledge in the 1970s 
sounds exactly like the story of the holotype tibia. 

Were the two specimens perhaps put up for sale at the same time, only to be 
sold separately? They 
weren't excavated by palaeontologists, so there are no reliable published 
accounts of them being found in 
association with each other (which itself is no guarantee of them being 
conspecific).

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 Dann Pigdon
 GIS Officer
 Melbourne, Australia
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