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"Feathered" Psittacosaurus makes it to a museum



This just in:

Dalton, R. 2001. Wandering Chinese fossil turns up at museum. Nature 414:
571.

News item stating that the infamous Psittacosaurus with the quilled tail has
wound up at the Naturmuseum Senckenberg in Frankfurt, purchased for
~US$200,000 this past summer.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
Department of Geology           Director, Earth, Life & Time Program
University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
                College Park, MD  20742
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/tholtz.htm
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~jmerck/eltsite
Phone:  301-405-4084    Email:  tholtz@geol.umd.edu
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