Re: oldest sauropod found

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote:

> Antentonitrus:
>
> Anten '? (perhaps location where found?)' + tonitrus 'thunder'

Antentonitrus = "before the thunder"

Ante = before (Latin) (as in antediluvian - before the flood).  Says Yates 
and Kitching (2003):  "[The name] refers to the early occurrence of this 
sauropod relative to _Brontosaurus_ (thunder lizard) one of the most 
familiar dinosaur names."




Tim

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