NEW PENTACERATOPS PAPER

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This came out of the latest issue of Journal of Paleontology:

Lehman, T M.  1998.  A gigantic skull and skeleton of the Horned Dinosaur
_Pentaceratops sternbergi_ from New Mexico.  Journal of Paleontology
72(5):894-906.

Lehman describes a very very large, resonably complete skull and skeleton of P
sternbergi.  Additionally, he talks about chasmosaurine phylogeny and the
likes.  The skull, although missing most of the frill is estimated to be more
than 3 metres long, which makes it bigger than any other terrestrial
vertebrate's.

He also does a skeleton restoration, which had been hard for P sternbergi
previously bacause skulls and skeletons were never positively associated with
skeletal elements.  Now if the scale bar on this drawing is correct, it shows
that Pentaceratops was gigantic, more than 5 metres long, and possibly bigger.
Also, the tail is especially short, not even reaching the ground.

There is also a paper on a new Eocene protocetid called _Georgiacetus_.  Neat
lookin stuff, fairly complete

Peter Buchholz
Tetanurae@aol.com

Where are the friggin abstracts?