Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus (Was Re: Novel way to reconstruct a skull)

[Richard W Travsky <rtravsky@uwyo.edu>]

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, George Winters wrote:
> At 09:28 PM 6/9/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >This item appeared in the June 5th edition of the
> >Casper, Wyoming, Star Tribune.
> > [...]
> >The skull, tho, is crushed from the eye sockets forward. The 
> >brain case on back was essentially in one piece, but flattened.
> ------------------snipped------------------------------------
> 
> Dr. Bakker had the partial skull reconstruction with him at Dinofest.  The
> cast (done by his grad students) was just spectacular.  Dr. Bakker stated
> that casts are available, but also stated emphatically that this is a
> BRONTOSAURUS !

The Tribune article repeatedly referred to it as Brontosaurus, but I
referred to it in my post as Apatosaurus as it's my understanding that
Brontosaurus is no longer used.

Has this name come back into favor?

rich