Re: Suuwassea Press Release

[Graydon <oak@uniserve.com>]

On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:31:09AM -0400, Danvarner@aol.com scripsit:
> "Suuwassea is the first unequivocal new sauropod from the Morrison
> Formation a 150-million-year-old geological formation extending from
> New Mexico to Montana in more than a century. It has a number of
> distinguishing features, but the most striking is this second hole in
> its skull, a feature we have never seen before in a North American
> dinosaur," said Peter Dodson, senior author and professor of anatomy
> at Penn School of Veterinary Medicine and professor in the Department
> of Earth and Environmental Sciences. "
> 
> Seismosaurus gets no respect. It's the Rodney Dangerfield of
> sauropods. 

Last I knew, Seismosaurus was also not considered unequivocally new, but
possibly just an exceptionally individual of Diplodocus.

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