Re: The new Archaeopteryx from... Wyoming?

[frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>]

As I have always said, material from private collectors eventually make 
it into museum's hands.  Hopefully the context information was 
preserved as well as the specimen.  What a tremendous fossil and no 
better place to keep it safe but Wyoming. Great story Jeff.
Frank (Rooster) Bliss
MS Biostratigraphy
Weston, Wyoming

On Dec 1, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:

> Okay, not really. It's from the Solnhofen, just like all the others. 
> It is currently HOUSED at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center, however.
>
> Jeff Hecht's news item on it is here 
> (http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8408), as well as a 
> picture. The paper itself will
> be out in a couple hours in Science.
>
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