Re: Re: Life's scale reduction since the Dinosaurs

["Nicholas R. Longrich" <longrich@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>]

On Thu, 25 Jan 1996, Nicholas J. Pharris wrote:

> Sorry for the mental lapse.  BTW, what do you mean "unless Amphicoelias 
> [fragillimus]  was real?"  Even the one dorsal vertebra indicates that 
> there was SOMETHING very large wandering around back then!

        There is no Amphicoelias vertebrae. What little anybody actually 
had of the vertebrae (which I think was just a neural arch) has been 
lost. But it was described, so unless the description was faked, it was 
probably real. It was Cope or Marsh who did the description, I believe. 

        -nick L.