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RE: WILSON'S APATOSAURUS ILLUSTRATION

To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: RE: WILSON'S APATOSAURUS ILLUSTRATION
From: franczak@ntplx.net (Brian Franczak)
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 17:45:00 -0500
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Dan Varner wrote:

>Yes, Wilson's rendering of a diplodocid-like head appeared on not one, but
>three (!!!) Apatosauri on page 53 of W.E.Swinton's _The Wonderful World of
>Prehistoric Animals_, published by Doubleday in 1961 (opposite a very
>horizontal, tail off the ground, Allosaurus (O.K., O.K., it was called
>Antrodemus in the book).

Heey! I've been ripped off! The version of the book that *I've* got has no
such illustration, just a cheesy photo of a pair of _Diplodocus_ models on
page 46; no Wilson illustration! What gives?!

Brian (franczak@ntplx.net)

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