Re: Wyoming Raptor & herbivoir necks - kinda long reply :-)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 01:30 AM 9/7/98 -0400, Allen Edels wrote:
>(Of course, I
>could be wrong - there could be something called "Wyoming Raptor", after
>all, there is a _Utahraptor_).

"Wyomingraptor" is an as-yet unofficially named allosaurid from the
Morrison.  Since Bakker is considered something of a splitter (he said,
understating the case), this form may simply be a new species of
_Allosaurus_ proper.  As the paper presenting this new taxon is not yet
available, though, we can't evaluate the evidence one way or another.

>    In your first post today, you mentioned that your mom bought you a book
>"The Dinosauria" - the editors of the book are : Dave Weishampel, Peter
>Dodson, and H. Osmolska.

[snipped discussion of Weishampel & Dodson's background.]

To be complete, Halska Osmolska is one of the most respected Eastern
European (Polish, in this case) paleontologists around, an expert in both
dinosaurs and trilobites.  She was part of the Polish-Mongolian expeditions
of the 1960s and 1970s, and has co-described such forms as _Deinocheirus_,
_Gallimimus_, _Prenocehale_, and others.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
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