RE: See! It's all because they changed Brontosaurus's name! ;-)

["Allan Edels" <edels@msn.Com>]

The article is from the Bangkok Post:
"It was the second such incident within a week at Pedan cave in Thung
Yai district."
As such, I expect that the incidents took place in Thailand, not China.

I'd probably faint at finding a 300 mya dinosaur.  Then I'd brush the
dust off, take out the picks, shovels, hammers, brushes, and start
digging. :-)

Of course, the reporter probably just assumed it was a dinosaur.  What
else is big, old, and buried in some rock?  :-))

Allan Edels 

P.S. to Mike:  I tried sending a message off-list to you, and it was
returned, twice.  Could you send me a working email address (direct to
me)?  [Humorous]

Thanks, Allan.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf
Of Michael Skrepnick
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:34 PM
To: Dinosaur List
Subject: Re: See! It's all because they changed Brontosaurus's name! ;-)

> >-B. McFeeters
> >
> >Are they really 300 million-years old?
>
> Well, I don't know, but I would suppose no.  Terrestrial vertebrate
fossils are very rare in the Carboniferous sediments of China (I take it
this happened in China?).  Even non-tetrapod vertebrate fossils from the
Carboniferous of China are quite rare, and I doubt anyone would confuse
"fish" fossils with those of dinosaurs, but who knows?
>
> Steve

*** Considering there were a small cluster of learned individuals who
were
insisting not too long ago that Sinosauropteryx sported a fin / collagen
fibres (anything but feathers), the above is not that much of a stretch
;o)
! . . . and because these are lay people in China who commonly would use
a
"broader" terminology, they can hardly be held accountable for their
generalist description of the fossil material.  Reportedly, during the
"supernatural" event, one of them cried out " Who gho'st there!!"

Mike Skrepnick