New Issue of JVP 24(1)

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Today the new issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (Volume 24, 
Number 1) arrived dated 25 March 2004.

The following papers should be of some interest to the dinosaur enthusiasts 
on this list:

Claessens, L P A M.  2004.  Dinosaur gastralia: origin, morphology, and 
function.  JVP 24(1): 89-106.

Martinez, R D, O Gimenez, J Rodriguez, M Luna, and M C Lamanna.  2004.  An 
articulated specimen of the basal titanosaurian (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) 
_Epachthosaurus sciuttoi_ from the early Late Cretaceous Bajo Barreal Formation 
of 
Chubut Province, Argentina.  JVP 24(1): 107-120

Curry Rogers, K and C Forster.  2004.  The skull of _Rapetosaurus krausei_ 
(Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar.  JVP 24(1): 
121-144.

Suzuki, D, D B Weishampel, and N Minoura.  2004.  _Nipponosaurus 
sachalinensis_ (Dinosauria; Ornithopoda): anatomy and systematic position 
within 
Hadrosauridae.  JVP 24(1): 145-164.

Tsuihiji, T.  2004.  The ligament system in the neck of _Rhea americana_ and 
its implication for the bifurcated neural spines of sauropod dinosaurs.  JVP 
24(1): 165-172.

Pete Buchholz
tetanurae@aol.com