A Dinosaur for the Mantle

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Okay, Listers and Listettes,

  Just in, (at least for my library) _Discover_ and _Natural History_
magazines have a few articles on dinosaurs.

  But first, _Science News_ (9/12/98, vol. 154) has an article on the
herder moons of Jupiter, with mention of "deep impacts that killed the
dinosaurs". Just to mention it, for those interested in any article on
the word or mention. A bit presumptive, in my opinion, but I've
learned not to take _Science News_ at hand very easily. The ref, for
you afficionados, is:

Anonymous. 1998. Mooning over the dust rings of Jupiter. _Science
News_ 154(9/12):182-183.

  NATURAL HISTORY

  Now, for the title story, and this affects the collecter/buyer
trade, and what I think is a grave wrong in the name of money (this is
not to insult any collector or buyer).

  A complete five-foot *Triceratops* skull (yung'un, ain't it?), a
footprint attributed to a *Dilophosaurus*, and a small, about 15 foot
or so, full skeleton with plates (I suspect it was prepared) of a
*Stegosaurus*. What's incredible is that there is a whole swath of the
ossicles found on the throat, running from the jowls to the chest,
thicker and more concentrated up north, that suggests that the entire
throat was armored, which certainly makes more sense to me than just
an armored gular pouch. The specimen is owned by Clifford Miles.
Apparently, it had fossilized skin. To quote the author quoting Miles,
"'In terms of scientific value, it's like the star on top of the
Christmas Tree.'" The author writes: "Why, then, isn't this fossil in
a museum?" Miles says he's sure it'll end up in one.

  On the trike skull, the owner is, incidentally, Mike Triebold.

  Also mentioned were the Chinese fossil birds sold in the Arizona
Mineral and Fossil Show, Tuscon, AZ, USA, that the list talked about a
while back.

  And, of course, Mr. Z-Rex.

reference:

Morell, V. 1998. A Dinosaur for the Mantle. _Natural History_
107(8):58-65.

  DISCOVER

  Bruce Rothschild's report of fossilized benign tumors in dino bone
(species unidentified (or unidentifiable)) from Cedar Mountain.

Anonymous. 1998. Saurian Sore. _Discover_ 19(10):26.

  and then, yet another report on Karen Chin's tyrannosaur coprolite,
reported by Tokyark of the Royal Sasketchewan Musuem (RSM) and Sloboda
of the Tyrell (RTMP). No explanation needed, but this is the first
time _I've_ seen it.

Anonymous. 1998. Ordure of Magnitude. _Discover_ 19(10):32.

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Jaime A. Headden

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