RE: South Dakota fossil yields new dinosaur species

[Ivan Kwan <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>]

I'm intrigued. Are they saying that they've found a _Homalocephale_-like 
pachycephalosaur with spikes similar to _Stygimoloch_/Sandy Creek 
pachycephalosaur?

The photo on the Yahoo! website looks a little like Mike Triebold's pachy 
skull squashed flat.

IIRC, the Sandy Creek pachy is missing its dome anyway, and besides, could 
this just be a case of individual variation? Besides, it seems that it was 
excavated from the same locality anyway; the Hell Creek Formation in South 
Dakota... wasn't that where "Sandy" was found?

But if it is indeed a non-pachycephalosaurid, it would be quite a surprise, 
given that this would appear to be the first verified non-pachycephalosaurid 
in North America.

Ivan

----Original Message Follows----
From: Allan Edels <edels@msn.com>
Reply-To: edels@msn.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: South Dakota fossil yields new dinosaur species
Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 09:42:09 -0400

Bakker's Latest -

Found on Yahoo from Reuters:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&e=1&u=/nm/20050502/sc_nm/science_dinosaur_dc

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