Re: Copenhagen Mamenchisaurus

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 10:02:50 -0400
> From: MKIRKALDY@aol.com
> 
> See: http://www.cphpost.dk/get/77283.html - "Chinese dinosaur a hit
> in Copenhagen"
> [...]
> "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."

Hi, Mary.  Thanks for this; I've seen it already, though (I did google
for "copenhagen mamenchisaurus" before bothering the list :-) and I
don't think it can be right.  The 1954 holotype of _Mamenchisaurus_
has only five dorsals preserved, and badly; whereas the Copenhagen
cast has all twelve looking pretty complete and convincing to me.

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

Wow!  Outside of the Americas!  <faints>

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