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Mongolian Ornitholestes

To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Mongolian Ornitholestes
From: "Mickey Mortimer" <mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 22:25:56 -0800
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Anyone ever visit the website for the paleontological collections of the
Institute of Paleobiology Polish Academy of Sciences?
http://www.twarda.pan.pl/paleo/collect.htm
On it are listed all the dinosaurs in their collections.  Some specimens are
worth noting:
ZPAL MgD-I/64 ?Deinocheirus sp.
I thought only the holotype was known.  What material is in this specimen
and what else could it be but a Deinocheirus? The only alternative I can
think of is Tyrannosaurus bataar, but they obviously decided it was more
probably a D. mirificus for some reason.
ZPAL MgD-I/99 ?Coeluroid
Anyone know what this turned out to be?  Velociraptor? Bagaraatan?
ZPAL MgD-II/19 ?Ornitholestes sp.
ZPAL MgD-II/21 ?Ornitholestes sp.
ZPAL MgD-II/28 ?Ornitholestes sp.
How about these here? Ornitholestes in the Gobi?  I don't think so.  My bet
would be Velociraptor, but why don't they just say so?
Anyone who has seen these specimens feel free to explain what they really
are.

Mickey Mortimer