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[Ralph Chapman <MNHAD002@SIVM.SI.EDU>]

 There are a few things of interest:

 1. Not dinosaurian but neat anyway. There is a new group of mammals
 that apparently made it's way in part of its line into the ocean
 as a full-fledged marine mammal. THE SLOTHS!!! Read all about it:

 de Muizon, C. & H.G.McDonald. 1995. An aquatic sloth from the Pliocene
    of Peru. Nature 375:224-227. 18May95

 2. Chris Bennett's paper on Rhamphorhynchus biometry is out:

 Bennett, S. Christopher. 1995. A statistical study of Rhamphorhynchus
    from the Solnhofen Linestone of Germany: Year-classes of a single
    large species. J. Paleontology   69(3):569-580.

  You can bet I'll be reading this one in some detail. I'll given
  an analysis of it sometime.

 3. And an Early Permian varanid looking synapsid:

 Berman, David S., R.R.Reiz, J.R. Bolt & D. Scott. 1995. The cranial
    anatomy and relationships of Varanosaurus (Eupelycosauria:
    Ophiacodontidae) from the Early Permian of Texas and Oklahoma.
    Annals of the Carnegie Museum   64(2):99-133.

 Seems to be a primitive Eupelycosaur. The stuff that comes out of the
 Permian red beds of Texas and Oklahoma never ceases to amaze me. I was
 on a fieldtrip there for a week led by Nick Hotton and E.C.Olson and
 saw amazing things. The Craddock bone bed is a near religious experience
 if you like Dimetrodon.

 I often thought of starting a journal on intestines and tummies and the
 like and calling it Entrails of the USNM.

 Anyway, TTFN   Ralph Chapman, NMNH