Re: PALEONEWS: Maverick dinosaur hunter rewriting the prehistorybooks

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 1/12/00 7:42:21 PM EST, legolas@cde.rieder.net.py writes:

<< The CNN article brings back a sore spot for argentine paleontologists: The
 "finding" of Herrerasaurus, which the media recently is suggesting was found
 to Dr. Sereno, when its holotype was actually found by Reig back in 1960
 (and additional material in 1963) and formally described by him, and been
 studies by many scientists since then, Benedetto (1973), Benton (1990) &
 Novas (1992a, 1992b). >>

My objection to the CNN article referred to in the original e-mail was the 
reference to Paul Sereno as a "maverick," when he is in fact very much a 
mainstream dinosaur paleontologist. And he doesn't stint in his 
acknowledgement of the prior work of Argentine paleontologists, whom the news 
media largely ignore (except for shows by the National Geographic Society, 
for example, which supports quite a bit of dinosaur paleontology in 
Argentina).