Re: PENTACERATOPS CORRECTIONS

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 98-09-24 02:07:07 EDT, Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com writes:

<< Also, does anyone have any updated information regarding Ultrasauros?  (it
 is "OS" isn't it?).
 I know their were some thoughts that perhaps this was simply a large
 Brachiosaur. >>

Junior synonym of _Supersaurus_, based on a vertebra evidently belonging to
the _Supersaurus_ holotype individual. See articles:

Curtice, Brian David and Linda Jane Curtice, 1996. Death of a Dinosaur: A
reevaluation of Ultrasauros macintoshi. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology,
Abstracts of Papers, Fifty-sixth Annual Meeting, Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, October
16-19, 1996: 29A.

Curtice, Brian David, Kenneth L. Stadtman and Linda J. Curtice, 1996. A
Reassessment of Ultrasauros macintoshi (Jensen, 1985). In: The Continental
Jurassic, Michael Morales, Ed., 1996, Museum of Northern Arizona Bulletin, 60:
87-95.