RE: Bambiraptor

[chris brochu <cbrochu@mail.fmnh.org>]

Tracy  asked me to forward this to the list:


>From: "Tracy Ford" <tlford@ix.netcom.com>
>To: <cbrochu@fieldmuseum.org>
>Subject: RE: Bambiraptor
>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 21:02:22 -0800
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>X-Priority: 3 (Normal)
>X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
>X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300
>Importance: Normal
>Status:
>
>
>
>

Me:
>No, he didn't.  It was in a museum in the Netherlands.  There was one
>Archaeopteryx in a private collection, but that was already known to
>Ostrom.  That specimen, by the way, has since vanished - the owner refused
>to let scientists look at it (even when the Archaeopteryx conference met in
>Eichstatt in the 1980's), and upon his death, it disappeared.  No one knows
>where it is now.
>

Tracy:
>I think, and I may be wrong, that it has been found again. I heard it
>somewhere.
>Tracy
>

------------------------
Christopher A. Brochu
Department of Geology
Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605

phone 312-665-7633
fax 312-665-7641
electronic cbrochu@fmppr.fmnh.org