RE: New taxa from the Lower-to-mid K volume

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. [SMTP:th81@umail.umd.edu]
        Sent:   Wednesday, October 28, 1998 10:14 AM
        To:     TWILLIAMS@canr1.cag.uconn.edu
        Cc:     dinosaur@usc.edu
        Subject:        Re: New taxa from the Lower-to-mid K volume


        Can anyone say _Ultrasaurus_?  We can, but not for the Morrison
brachiosaur,
        not even as a junior synonym.  Because Kim thought that name was
valid
        (after all, everyone was using it) he referred some undiagnostic
Korean
        material to this genus.  Unfortunately, that name was a nomen nudum
prior to
        that, so the Korean specimen became the true "_Ultrasaurus_".  Now
we can't
        use that name for the big Morrison form, even as a junior synonym to
        _Brachiosaurus_.

        This is the most famous example of this in dinosaur paleontology.


        Correct.

        Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
        Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
        Dept. of Geology              Email:tholtz@geol.umd.edu
        University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
        College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661

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        Rather off to a tangent (where I tend to dwell), what IS the
estimated size of the Morrison brachiosaur?  

        Dwight