Re: your mail

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

On Sun, 26 Feb 1995 DAVISL@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU wrote:

> I am looking for information on the DROMAEOSAURID discovered in South
> England in 1983.  In Norman's test, The Illustrated Encyclopedia of
> Dinosaurs, a claw is pictured on page 61 and the dinosaur is referred to
> as the "Surrey Dinosaur."  1) Has a scientific name been assigned? and
> 2) Is there published information on it's description?

The dinosaur you are referring to is:

Baryonyx walkeri

Discovered by Bill Walker, an amateur collector, in a clay pit in Surrey, 
England, January 1983.  He originally found an enormous claw.

reference: Charig and Milner 1986. "Baryonyx, a remarkable new theropod
                dinosaur."  Nature 324: 359-361.

---John Schneiderman (dino@revelation.unomaha.edu)