Re: LIAONINGOSAURUS REFERENCES

[Brian Choo <bchoo@cyllene.uwa.edu.au>]

Ha, thats not half of it...

The restored skeleton of the complete Minmi specimen (QM F18101) appears on
page 127 (presumably in the same article that provided the info on ventral
armour for the Liaoningosaurus authors...) long before Molnar's 1996
description of the specimen. Thus "The Ultimate Dinosaur Book" is cited in
the Molnar's report along with Lambert & Buntings' 1995 "The Visual
Description of Prehistoric Life" which also has the specimen pictured.

Cheerio
Brian


>An aside...
>
>Have just been checking stuff in the paper on the ankylosaur
>_Laioningosaurus paradoxus_ and have noted an interesting precedent:
>they cite 'Lambert, 1993' as their reference for presence of ventral
>armour in ankylosaurs. Lambert, 1993 = _The Ultimate Dinosaur
>Book_ (Dorling Kindersley). This is obviously not the first time that a
>popular book has been cited in an academic work, but as a source for
>technical morphological information??
>
>Should amuse some parties, not least of which is David Lambert:)
>
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