Re: Hell Creek Vertebrates at Berkeley catalogue

[John Schneiderman <dino@revelation.unomaha.edu>]

No, it is no joke...Purgatorius is known from teeth with heightened cusps.

---John Schneiderman



On Wed, 23 Nov 1994, Miles Constable at Edmn wrote:

> 
> In my brief tour through Russ's Home Page I browsed through the Hell Creek 
> Vertebrates at Berkeley catalogue. One listing was extremely puzzling. It 
> was listed as Purgatorius ceratops, Class Mammalia, Order Primates. 
> Hmmmm...... Is this a joke, am I a poorer biologist than my boss thinks, or 
> did someone really screw up the taxonomy of this specimen? It would be a 
> truely awsome thing to have a ceratopsian primate, but a little difficult to 
> visualize. They could be top heavy.
>