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News item re Gobi dinos



Local paper yesterday (Albany Times Union, Apr 5/94) 
carried an Associated Press item re American Museum of Nat
History finds in the Gobi in summer 1993, described as
"best preserved assemblage of backboned animals ever found
from the Cretaceous period", and as important for dino/bird
evolution as well as early mammals.
Find included 100 dinosaur fossils, 175 fossil lizards, and
147 skulls or skeletons of mammals; all about 80 my old.
 
Dinosaur remains included 6 anklyosaurs, with tail spikes (?)
preserved (?query, should that be tail clubs?); several new
small theropods; a complete skull and skeleton of Oviraptor; 
6 skeletons of Mononykus (possible dino/bird transitional animal); 
and well preserved eggs.
 
Spokesperson was Michael Novacek of AMNH.
 
- Heather  hw@mts.rpi.edu