Re: Ca dinosaur?

[Bettyc <Bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Bruce Mortensen wrote:
> Is there any truth to the rumor that I recently heard about a dinosaur site
> being discovered in California at a place called Granite Bay, on or near
> Folsom Lake?  The story I heard was that dinosaur fossils (possibly a small
> theropod) were found when the land was being prepared for a new subdivision,
> and that a local Sacramento area college was involved in getting the bones out
> of the ground before houses are built.  

If this is the same thing that was discussed at the Berkeley Vertebrate
Lecture Thingy a couple of months ago, I think at the time, the guys had
found a small bone in a Cretacaeous marine-off-shore deposit that had
been positivly identified by one of the experts on therapods at UC
Berkeley as having been very therapod-like ;].  This site was near
Sacramento where the two guys were following right behind the bulldozers
in a housing development project as fast as they could since it was
going to be built-over immediatly.  There was an abstract that was
published alongside the lecture, but the therapod-like bone was not
covered to much extent.  Instead they concentrated on the nifty 4 foot
section of a cycad-like tree/fern and pod-thing they found with seeds
growing right out of the trunk.  John H. may have more details.

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