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[dinosaur] T. rex in Seattle + Scipionyx underappreciated + IGCP Project 608 program pdf + more





Ben Creisler
bcreisler@gmail.com

Some recent items:

More on the T. rex skull and other parts found in Montana and brought to the Burke Museum in Seattle:

http://www.burkemuseum.org/blog/burke-museum-team-discovers-t-rex


News story with new video added, including interviews about the find 


http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/08/18/paleontologists-with-the-burke-museum-uw-discover-major-t-rex-fossil/



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Fossil treasure Scipionyx (nicknamed Ciro) does not get the public display its scientific  importance deserves, currently relegated to a small room in a small  museum in Benevento, Italy (in Italian)


http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/arte_e_cultura/16_agosto_19/benevento-soprintendenza-chiude-dinosauro-ciro-una-stanzetta-bc7c6632-65db-11e6-addc-c76dce7e53cd.shtml

 


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Scientists attending The Fourth International Symposium of IGCP Project 608  "Cretaceous ecosystems and their response to changes in palaeoenvironments in Asia and the Western Pacific", held at Novosibirsk, visited Shestakovo in Siberia to see the new fossil finds, including Psittacosaurus and a symmetrodont (in Russian)




http://gazeta.a42.ru/lenta/show/uchyonyie-dinozavryi-sdelayut-proryiv-v-nauke-i-turizme-kuzbassa.html

 

The program in English (no abstracts yet) for the meeting can be downloaded here:



http://news.sbras.ru/ru/Documents/IGCP608_2016_Russia/4th-IGCP608-Novosibirsk-2016-Program.pdf

 

http://www.ipgg.sbras.ru/ru/news/igcp608-2016



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Some dinosaur and other images from scientific papers


https://arcuff.blogspot.co.uk/2016/08/favourite-figures-from-papers.html


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Lohuecotitan pandafilandi, new sauropod from Spain; species name is homage to Cervantes after a character in Don Quixote (in Spanish)



http://www.lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/sociedad/2016/08/19/dinosaurio-hallado-cuenca-llamara-pandafilandi-honor-quijote/00031471617910303291678.htm


http://cadenaser.com/emisora/2016/08/19/ser_cuenca/1471627055_655493.html

 

http://www.laverdad.es/murcia/sociedad/201608/19/dinosaurio-informa-como-espana-20160819153136-rc.html


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More on Duriatitan found in Portugal (in Portuguese)


http://zap.aeiou.pt/paleontologos-identificam-dinossauro-que-so-existia-em-portugal-e-inglaterra-125984



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Titanosauriform dig in Cañadón Mistringa in Argentina resumes for more of specimen first found in 2013 (in Spanish)



http://www.elperiodicoderincon.com.ar/ver_noticia.php?id=20160818141301



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New dinosaur finds at Fusui in Guangxi Province (in Chinese)

 

http://www.uua.cn/show-10-7622-1.html

 


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Paleo news roundup for the week



http://blogs.plos.org/paleocomm/2016/08/19/fossil-friday-roundup-august-19th-2016/ 



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