Fw: Apatosaurus vs. Brontosaurus

[Thomas de Wilde <jedimr_thomas@hotmail.com>]

Forget my question, I hadn't read this one yet

Thomas

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Cc: <garrison@efn.org>
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 9:12 PM
Subject: Apatosaurus vs. Brontosaurus


> Garrison Hilliard (garrison@efn.org) wrote:
>
> <Screw that noise; it's still a Brontosaurus to me, even if it had the
> wrong head on it.>
>
>   Another assumption is that *Brontosaurus* was renamed *Apatosaurus*
> because it had the wrong head on. This is one of the most prevailing myths
> in dinosaurs to date. This is bigger than the marsh-lovers idea. Bigger
> than tail-drags and grey-colored animals.
>
>   *Apatosaurus* was named a year prior to *Brontosaurus,* and was given
> it's name because of the shape of it's chevrons looked like
> *Camarasaurus,* but was closer to *Diplodocus* instead, hence it's tail
> was "deceptive." A few years after *Brontosaurus* was named, they were
> synonymized because one was essentially a juvenile of the other, as more
> material has supported over the last century. This was WELL prior to the
> recovery of the partial skull for *Apatosaurus.*
>
>   Cheers,
>
> =====
> Jaime A. Headden
>
>   Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making
leaps in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We
should all learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather
than zoom by it.
>
> "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
>
>
>
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