Re: Mystery Sauropod Skull

[m.moser@lrz.uni-muenchen.de]

Locality: Quarry at the Langenberg near Oker, Lower Saxony, northern Germany.
Age: Kimmeridgian.

The quarry owners only allowed for diggings by a private museum
"Dinosaurierpark Muenchehagen", which got all original material (but see
below).


additional info (in German):

locality:
http://www.nlfb.de/geologie/downloads/geotope/Infoblatt_Langenberg_Oker.pdf

newspaper articles on the sauropod findings:
http://rhein-zeitung.de/on/99/07/01/topnews/dino.html
http://www.zeit.de/archiv/1999/21/199921.dinos_.xml

this page informs on the initial production of the cast:
http://www.rwth-aachen.de/zentral/dez3_pm2000_pmdino.htm

Unfortunately, most of the original material found at the Langenberg was
destroyed in October 2003 due to a fire-raiser:
http://www.g-o.de/index.php?cmd=aws_expo&id=164



Regards

Markus Moser


------------------------
Dr. Markus Moser
Staatliches Museum fuer Naturkunde Stuttgart
Rosenstein 1
D-70191 Stuttgart
Germany
?
Bayerische Staatssammlung fuer
Palaeontologie und Geologie
Richard-Wagner-Str. 10
D-80333 Muenchen
Germany
?
m.moser@lrz.uni-muenchen.de
moser.smns@naturkundemuseum-bw.de







> Hi Mike, Do you or anyone else on the List know
> anything about the "unnamed sauropod" skull repro
> being offered by Dinocast? The details put forth are
> that it's allegedly an 80% complete juvenile
> camarasaurid, Late Jurassic, from Oker, Germany. They
> also cite it as "the first sauropod skull from
> Europe." Is this for real, and why haven't we heard
> about this before? If the reconstruction is accurate,
> it could actually be a juvenile brachiosaurid, judging
> from the hypertrophied nasals and morphology of the
> right maxilla shown. If anyone has information on this
> I'd like to know more. (By the way, Mike, that sample
> review chapter is going out to you this weekend--)
>
> --Mark Hallett
>
> --- Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote:
>> > Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:50:42 +0000
>> > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Oct=E1vio_Mateus?=
>> <omateus@dinocasts.com>
>> >
>> > I can say the original specimen of the
>> Mamenchisaurus at Copenhagen,
>> > but Niels Bonde, from Copenhagen, told me that the
>> cast is a
>> > Mamenchisaurus with a Diplodocus skull.
>>
>> Yup, that's pretty clear when you see the mount.
>>
>> > The similar cast of the Mamenchisaurus
>> hochuanensis can be seen at
>> >
>>
> http://www.dinocasts.com/productDetails.asp?productId=119
>> at
>> > Dinocasts.com website.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>  _/|_
>>
> _______________________________________________________________
>> /o ) \/  Mike Taylor  <mike@indexdata.com>
>> http://www.miketaylor.org.uk
>> )_v__/\  "I started college as a physics major.  It
>> was too weird
>>       for me, so I switched to philosophy instead" --
>> Bill McQuain.
>>
>> --
>> Listen to free demos of soundtrack music for film,
>> TV and radio
>>      http://www.pipedreaming.org.uk/soundtrack/
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
> __________________________________
> Do you Yahoo!?
> New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages!
> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
>