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Biggest Bloopers in Vert Paleo?



I'm sure to the experts out there, these stories are well known,
but as an amateur, I'd like to know:
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?
Just curious; I figure there's a "human error" artifact in 
any science.

Sean

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