Re: dino numeracy

[jdharris@csn.net (Jerry D. Harris)]

>        There's also a T. rex nicknamed "Duffy".  It was found in 1993 by
>Stan Sacrison (also discoverer of "Stan" (see number 9 above).  "Duffy" is
>named after Patrick Duffy, who did legal work for the Black Hills
>Institute to "free Sue."  (All this might make for an interesting
>movie. :-)  Last I heard (which was 1993), Duffy had not yet been
>completely located.  They had only 20% of the post-cranial skeleton and
>10% of the skull.  "Strata shifts" had moved the material somewhat, so
>they did expect to recover unarticulated (disarticulated?) bits of the
>animal in the vicinity.  Recovered skull parts included large teeth
>complete with roots, so they hoped to find the main part of the skull
>nearby.  Postcranial material recovered: some dorsal vertebra, some
>ribs, 5 caudal vertebra.
>
>        Anyone know of any others?
>


        Yes, there's the new specimen from SW Saskatchewan, which is
reportedly failry complete, and then the fragmentary skeleton excavated by
our museum in a Denver suburb housing development (the site is now
someone's basement) in 1992.  It isn't complete:  a few tail vertebrae, a
femur and partial tibia, part of the ilium, a scapulocoracoid, some ribs,
and some teeth.


Jerry D. Harris
Denver Museum of Natural History
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to her daugher:

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the horse-dinosaur, and the elephant-dinosaur..."

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