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Ben CreislerNews stories about the "Ultrasaurus" find came out in 1979 around July.Â
New York Times July 31, 1979, Section A, Page 1
Paleontologist in Colorado Finds Evidence of the Biggest Dinosaur ...
A Utah paleontologist, digging in an ancient dry river bed on a windswept Colorado mesa, has found bones of the biggest dinosaur that has yet been discovered â a huge animal that, he estimates, would have been able to look into a topâfloor window of a fiveâ or six. story building.
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/31/archives/paleontologist-in-colorado-finds-evidence-of-the-biggest-dinosaur.html
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People Magazine October 22, 1979
'Dinosaur Jim' Jensen Finds a Shoulder Bone That Was Connected to a Set of Bones 50 Feet TallI browsed the Reader's Digest contents posted as cover images online and don't see anything that obviously matches in the July through December 1979 issues and early 1980 issues.ÂOn Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:55 AM Mike Taylor <sauropoda@gmail.com> wrote:I was about eleven years old, so the year would have 1979 or so. I was
in the waiting room at an optician, to be tested for my first pair of
glasss. As I waited, I browsed a Reader's Digest and it was there that
I first read about Ultrasaurus, the greatest of all the dinosaurs!
... At least, that's how I remember it. But I know memories can be
deceptive, and after all it WAS forty years ago.
The thing is, I can't find that Reader's Digest. I have the much
earlier 1973 article in RD, by Jean George, about Supersaurus, and
it's POSSIBLE that the optician had a six-year-old Reader's Digest in
a waiting room and that's what I read, and that my mind is filling in
missing pieces. But I don't think so: I'm pretty sure it was
Ultrasaurus I was reading about.
As some of you will know, I am part way through a project to
reconstruct the history of Jensen's big three Dry Mesa sauropods: a
timeline summarising what I've found so far can be found at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svpow.com_2019_07_17_supersaurus-2Dtimeline_&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=rRlOPi0W0w9TDLHsSzNvlZPLsHq8YXMJAFsGJsekG1M&s=D90RQKD9flvl5s6BMQBrR2hF0-37AZupJSebv0zbV1I&e=Â and this is part of
a larger project re-evaluating Supersaurus, indexed at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svpow.com_supersaurus-2Dand-2Dco-2Din-2D2019_&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=rRlOPi0W0w9TDLHsSzNvlZPLsHq8YXMJAFsGJsekG1M&s=AWcAf-EFoJRI7tZFcIP5u-cJoaEcpUshKugpzextVso&e=
As part of that project â and also for sheer nostalgia â I would LOVE
to recover a copy of that 1979-or-thereabouts Reader's Digest article
about Ultrasaurus. (It can't have been from before 1979, as that's
when the not-really-type scapulocoracoid was found and the name
coined.) But RD's own search facilities are pretty wretched:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rd.com_tmbi-5Ffirst-5Fassociated_magazine_&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=rRlOPi0W0w9TDLHsSzNvlZPLsHq8YXMJAFsGJsekG1M&s=7oS6aPEZKPHwf8pnnkdhShAe0RUG6Ktsy9PcL0ZKGQk&e=Â and can't find
anything. Certainly a search for "ultrasaurus" or even "supersaurus"
finds nothing.
Can anyone help? I have no idea how, really, but if there's any
community that can come up with something, it's this one.
-- Mike.