Re: Copenhagen Mamenchisaurus

[MKIRKALDY@aol.com]

In a message dated 6/18/2004 9:16:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
mike@indexdata.com writes:

< Aha!  Very useful link, thanks.  Comparing with my own photos of the 
Copenhagen exhibit, I am pretty damned certain they are both cast from the same 
original -- e.g. the cervicals are broken in the same way. So it looks like the 
mystery of its species, at least, is resolved.>

See: http://www.cphpost.dk/get/77283.html - "Chinese dinosaur a hit in 
Copenhagen"

<SNIP> "Mamenchisaurus literally means "Mamenxi lizard," and refers to the area 
near Sichuan, China, where the first known fossilised specimen was uncovered in 
1954 by Chinese paleontologist C.C. Young (Yang Zhong Jian)."

"The longneck is on loan from a museum in Ljubjana, Slovenia. All of the bones 
and vertebra are made from fiberglas, but are direct copies of the 1954 
original."

Ljubjana is of course the site of the 2005 SVP meeting.

Mary