Re: New Nanotyrannus specimen?

[M Mendez <blondgruve@yahoo.com>]

Dan Varner wrote:
>>>The Burpee Museum is to be congratulated for what
> sounds like a fine 
> specimen. Two bits at the website got my attention, however.
> Bakker 
> "discovered" "Nanotyrannus" in the Cleveland Museum
> collections?! I'd hate to 
> think this will be entering the mythology.<<

The original paper describing _Nanotyrannus_ as a Gorgosaur was
published posthumously. Now isn't that weird already?

>Secondly, they collected this at night because it got
> up to 100 degrees during the day?! Is this a first for
paleontological collecting? No, wait, it isn't. There's a
well-known fossil dealership in South Dakota who  were at one
time named the "Midnight Miners", but I don't think their
nocturnal exploits were due to heat exhaustion. DV<<<

If anything, Montana gets arrid and windy during the field
season. Many of the small museums there have lands they excavate
(of course this is not for profit, but for discovery and
learning/teaching). 

fossiliferously,
-marco

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