Re: Destroyed Fossils (was: Re: JP3 Trailer)

["Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

T. Mike Keesey wrote:

> Still missing are the holotypes of _Amphicoelias fragillimus_,
> _Calamospondylus oweni_, _Notoceratops bonarelli_, and _Odontorhynchus
> aculeatus_ (my database includes pterosaurs).
>
> Destroyed holotypes: _Aegyptosaurus baharijensis_, _Bahariasaurus ingens_,
> _Caudocoelus sauvagei_, _Podokesaurus holyokensis_, _Poekilopleuron
> bucklandii_, _Spinosaurus aegyptiacus_. All of these were destroyed in
> World War II, except for _Podokesaurus_, destroyed in a fire.


I believe the type specimens for _Erectopus superbus_ and _Ornithomimus 
grandis_ have also gone AWOL.

Baron von Huene's _Titanosaurus indicus_ material from the Lameta Formation 
at Bara Simla may also be lost, including Lydekker's type caudals.  However, 
a few years ago Sankar Chatterjee reported that he had located some of the 
_T. indicus_ material (can't recall which institution), but did not specify 
the particular elements that had been found.


Tim


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Timothy J. Williams

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