Re: hesperasaurus

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/19/01 6:44:56 PM EST, dinonaut@emerytelcom.net writes:

<< First of all, Hesperasaurus is a large nearly complete primitive looking
stegosaur. It was found and named by the commercial fossil outfit, Western
Paleontological Labs, about ten years ago. It was discovered in an Early
Morrison location in Wyoming. The name Hesperasaurus or "Western reptile", is
a pun on the companys' name. >>

This dino (name slightly misspelled above) has not yet been formally
described. Its description will appear sometime this autumn in yet another in
the current avalanche of paleo books from Indiana University Press. If
someone can supply a published reference in which this name has appeared as a
nomen nudum, I'd be most interested, of course.