RE: Papers in the new JVP

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

http://chinleana.blogspot.com/2010/05/if-azendohsaurus-is-not-sauropodomorph.html

A week ago, from a different paper. Also has a skull reconstruction.


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> Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 23:17:04 +0200
> From: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: Papers in the new JVP
>
>>>> For those without access to the paper, like myself, what is their
>>>> estimated mass for Q. northropi?
>>
>> 544 kg
>
> For crying out loud.
>
> Anyway, the same issue has a paper on *Azendohsaurus*. The "prosauropod"
> from Madagascar is referred to it as a new species, and *Azendohsaurus*
> is neither an ornithischian nor a sauropodomorph. In fact, it's not an
> archosauriform at all. There's no trace of an antorbital fenestra, and
> the lateral temporal fenestra is still open ventrally!
>
> This blog post has more information, including a skull reconstruction:
> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2010/05/21/azendohsaurus-the-dinosaur-that-wasnt/
                                          
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