Re: fate of commercially collected specimens, was (RE: Giant caenagnathid pix)

["Michael Schmidt" <dmschmidt@sprint.ca>]

It may interest you to know a museum is currently in negotiations to
purchase the Pachy.


----- Original Message -----
From: <GUNTER.VANACKER@ELECTRABEL.COM>
To: <gigi.babcock@alumni.usc.edu>; <NJPharris@aol.com>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 1:59 AM
Subject: fate of commercially collected specimens, was (RE: Giant
caenagnathid pix)


>
> Nick Pharris wrote:
>
> > >  http://www.trieboldpaleontology.com/casts/oviraptor.htm
> >
> > Is this thing going to be described any time in the foreseeable future?
>
> and
>
> Ralph W. Miller III wrote :
>
> > This specimen is still up for sale, so its ultimate fate is unknown.
>
>
> The same applies to the pachycephalosaur specimen, also owned by Triebold
> Paleontology. This is without doubt the most complete pachycephalosaur
ever
> found (including complete skull and most of the postcranial skeleton). The
> current owner seems to be uncertain about its identity, it has been
> announced as Stygimoloch spinifer or Pachycephalosaurus wyomingensis.
> Thorough study may reveal that S. spinifer is a junior synonym of the
> latter, and that an adult P. wyomingensis attained a more modest size of 3
> to 4m (10 to 13ft), instead of the often quoted 5 to 8m (17 to 26ft).
>
> I wonder whether the skull of the caenagnathid cast skeleton is based on
> good associated remains,  or only reconstructed based on comparisons with
> Mongolian oviraptorids. If the former possibility is applicable, this
means
> that North American caenagnathids looked more like Asian "Rinchenia"-grade
> oviraptorids, instead of Asian Ingenia-grade oviraptorids.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gunter Van Acker
>
>
> GunterVanAcker.mesozoic@pi.be
> or
> Gunter.VanAcker@Electrabel.be
>