Re: MT Dinosaurs...

[Vickie Clouse <clousev@yahoo.com>]

Kelley, Allan and listmembers:
I apologize for the duplication of information
regarding the first MT  dinosaurs.  I replied to
Kelley's question and then, while going through
the rest of my e-mails, I discovered that Allen
Edels had already supplied the information.
Vickie

--- Allan Edels <Edels@email.msn.com> wrote:
> All:
> 
>     Ferdinand Vandiveer Hayden (aka "He Who
> Runs while Picking Up Rocks"
> [his Indian name]) discovered the first 4
> dinosaurs named in the United
> States in 1854, in what is now Montana (the
> Nebraska Territory).   He sent
> them to Dr. Joseph Leidy at the ANSP, who named
> them in 1856.  They are
> _Palaeoscincus_, _Troodon_, _Trachodon_, and
> _Deinodon_ (a.k.a. _Dinodon_).
> The specimens are very fragmentary, mostly just
> a few teeth.  (Note that
> some of them are nomen dubium).
> 
> (Original) Reference: Joseph Leidy: "Notice of
> Remains of Extinct Reptiles
> and Fishes, Discovered by D. F. V. Hayden in
> the Bad Lands of the Judith
> River, Nebraska Territory."  Proceedings of the
> Academy of Natural Sciences
> of Philadelphia, Volume 8 [1856], pages 72-73.
> 
>       Allan Edels
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleo Mont <paleo_mont@excite.com>
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Date: Tuesday, April 13, 1999 3:14 AM
> Subject: MT Dinosaurs...
> 
> 
> >Ok, I have been looking around to find out
> what the "first" dinosaur that
> >was found in Montana was, and well not sure. 
> The earliest that I have come
> >across was 1876 Monoclonius described and
> named by Cope.  Do any off you
> >know if there was an earlier one? I am going
> to check 2 more of my books to
> >see if I can find it.  This will bother me
> till I find out.  Anyways...
> >Thanks for your help, in advance.
> >
> >k.wicks
> >
> >Paleo Mont Research
>
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> >
> >Paleo Mont Park
>
>http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/3381
> >
> >"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldnt be
> called research, would it?"
> A.
> >Einstein
> >
> >
> >
> >
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===
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