Re: Largest Dinosaur?

["SCHMIDT" <ashmidt@flash.net>]

Arg!  How could I make such an error!?  Apologies to anyone I inadvertently
confused.
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From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>
To: <ashmidt@flash.net>; <xeonboy@hotmail.com>; <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 8:19 AM
Subject: RE: Largest Dinosaur?
>
> A bit of confusion: Schmidt is thinking about Amphicoelias fragillimus,
not
> Sauroposeidon.  Sauroposiedon's fossils are in collections, and it is
indeed
> quite a large dinosaur.  However, I do not recall any indication that it
is
> larger than the Argentine giants (Argyrosaurus, Argentionsaurus) or their
> kissing-cousin from Egypt (Paralititan).
>
> Sauroposeidon does indeed seem to be a brachiosaurid similar to
> Brachiosaurus.
>
> 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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