Re: Talos sampsoni, new North American Late Cretaceous troodontid

[Lindsay Zanno <lzanno@fieldmuseum.org>]

Please cease and desist talking about this dinosaur!... the embargo
was accidentally broken by the Salt Lake Tribune today.
The actual embargo lifts Monday at 5 pm EST.
Thanks to all.
-Lindsay Zanno


On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:45 AM, bh480@scn.org <bh480@scn.org> wrote:
> From: Ben Creisler
> bh480@scn.org
>
> There are news stories and some information about this new dinosaur out on
> the web, but I don't see the article posted in PLoS ONE yet despite what
> the news story says.
>
> http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52602105-78/monument-dinosaur-saturday-kan
> ab.html.csp
> Here's a caption from the article:
> Talos sampsoni is a member of a rare group of feathered, bird-like theropod
> dinosaurs whose evolution in North America has been a longstanding source
> of scientific debate, largely for lack of decent fossil material. Talos
> represents the first definitive troodontid to be named from the Late
> Cretaceous of North America in over 75 years.
>
> The only ref I can find for now is at:
> http://zoobank.org/?lsid=urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8D47F6C5-DF9C-4886-8091-44
> 35EBD88CF2
>
> Zanno, Lindsay E., David J. Varricchio, Patrick M. O’Connor, Alan L. Titus
> & Michael J. Knell. In Press. A new troodontid theropod, Talos sampsoni
> gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper Cretaceous Western Interior Basin of North
> America . Public Library of Science.
>
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Lindsay E. Zanno, PhD
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