RE: U-Haul Archelons

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> As I was driving, to the mall of course, this morning, the
> picture and text on the side of a U-Haul moving truck caught my
> eye.  It featured South Dakota, with a giant painting of a turtle
> and text that read in part, "What is a giant sea turtle doing in
> South Dakota?  What does an Archelon fossil, unearthed near
> Buffalo Gap, tell us about life here over 65 million years ago?"
> It went on about the Western Interior Seaway, but the truck also
> went on in a different direction.
>
> The website at:
> http://www.uhaul.com/supergraphics/archive.html
> shows some graphics that have appeared on the trucks now and in
> the past.  Click on South Dakota, and it shows an old picture of
> an Archelon taking up a parking place.
>

Actually, I've been pleased to see that there are a LOT of
paleontologically-oriented U-Haul trucks, starting with Utah's Dinosaur
National Monument one (featuring the infamous "Ceratyrannosaurus": the
horned two-fingered Ceratosaurus) (incidentally, that particular one has
since been replaced).

Among the batch at the webpage are:
South Datkota's _Archelon_
Illinois' _Tullimonstrum_ (the Tully Monster!!), also featuring a little
paleogeography
Iowa's Manson Crater impact
and Nebraska's _Teleoceras_ (the hippo-rhino).

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
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