Re: T.rex fossils?

[hgarman@eagle.wbm.ca (Matthew Garman)]

Here's some stuff that people wrote on t-rex.


On Thu, 11 May 1995, James Shields wrote:

> >As a result of following the list, I have learned that the total number
> >of T-Rex remains (remnants of individual Rexxes) is about 16? Is that
> >correct?
>
> According to "The Complete T. Rex" by John Horner and Don Lessem, there are
> eleven. The UK edition of this book was published in 1993 (the US edition
> would probably have been about a year earlier). I somehow doubt there have
> been five new discoveries since then.
>
> 1.      Discovered in 1900 by Barnum Brown in Wyoming.
> 2.      Found in 1902 by Barnum Brown in Montana.
> 3.      1907 by Barnum Brown in Montana.
> 4.      1966 by Harley Garbani in Montana.
> 5.      1980 by Phil Bjork in South Dakota.
> 6.      1981, but originally located by Charles Sternberg in Alberta in 1946.
> 7.      "Black Beauty", found in 1981 by high school students in Alberta.
> 8.      1981, Mick Hager, Montana.
> 9.      1987-92, Stan Sacrison/Pete Larson, South Dakota.
> 10.     1988, Kathy Wankel, Montana.
> 11.     "Sue", 1990, Susan Hendrickson, South Dakota.
>


>Mikiel wrote:
>
>       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.

Hope this helps,
Mesozoic Matt.







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