R: "Supersaurus"

["Alessandro Marisa" <amaris@tin.it>]

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Trevor Haldenby <talostonprez@home.com>
A: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Data: lunedì 16 agosto 1999 17.56
Oggetto: Re: "Supersaurus"


>Last I heard and out of vague rememberance, Supersaurus had been classified
>as a Brachiosaur
>Trevor
>I'll get back to y'all on this later
>ceevans@home.com wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> This has been bothering me for a long time. Does anyone know if
>> "Supersaurus" is a diplodicid or a brachiosaur? The reason I ask is
>> because when they first discovered the 8ft. femur and skeleton they
>> agreed that it was, in fact, a huge cousin of diplodicus. However, I've
>> seen "Supersaurus" depicted in books and such as a brachiosaur.


I don't have much reference about these two Sauropods, but in my computer I
have classified Ultrasaurus as a Brachiosauridae and Supersaurus as a
Diplodocidae.

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Alessandro Marisa
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