Re: Biggest Bloopers in Vert Paleo?

[jimf@vangelis.ncrmicro.ncr.com (Jim Foley)]

>What (if any) have been some of the "Great Blunders in Vertebrate
>Paleontology"? You know, something like: someone finds the tibea
>from a wooly mammoth, and pronounces it to be the wing bone of
>a flying Allosaurid carivore, or something like that? And of
>these kinds of stories, how many were actually believed until
>disproven?

In "Lucy's Child", they mention that Noel Boaz had found what he claimed
to be fossilized hominid rib bone.  Tim White showed at a public
meeting that it was from a dolphin, and later called it
"Flipperpithecus".

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