Re: The Lost Dinosaurs Of Egypt

["Patricia Kane-Vanni" <pkv1@erols.com>]

Joe:
    Stromer found a large and varied fauna: 4 dinos, (3 theropods, 1
sauropod) crocs, fish, sharks, snakes, turtles, plants etc.  I'm sure others
can give more specifics but a slew of stuff was found and all but a few
teeth (still in Cairo) were destroyed.  While in Egypt in 2000 our team
found a similarly diverse fauna, some of which will be reported on at the
October SVP meeting in Oklahoma.
    Patti

Patricia Kane-Vanni, Esq.
pkv1@erols.com  or  pkvanni@sas.upenn.edu
http://groups.msn.com/DinosaurandFossilDigs

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Gilvary" <seosamh@chesapeake.net>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 7:13 PM
Subject: Re: The Lost Dinosaurs Of Egypt


> On Monday 03 June 2002 5:27 am, Julia Heathcote wrote:
>
> >    German palaeontologist Ernst Stromer's
> >    legendary "lost" dinosaurs were four new species that
> >    he unearthed in the remote western desert of Egypt in
> >    the early 1900s, but were destroyed in the bombing of
> >    Munich in the Second World War.
>
> I picked up the Time-Life Guide "Dinosaurs" for my kids this
> past week. When the budding herpetologist heard about
> the destruction of Stromer's finds during the war, he asked
> me what other discoveries Stromer had made that were lost.
> (We were reading the Spinosaurus entry, inspired by his
> younger brother's wardrobe.)
>
> It's not in this book, but I told him I'd check here on the list.
> Any information gratefully accepted.
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Joe
>
>