Re: Jive Turkey bones found in Utah

[Andrew Milner <amilner@sgcity.org>]

I'm guessing that since it's only a hand and foot, then it's probably the 
new oviraptorosaur, _Hagryphus giganteus_ recently described by Lindsay 
Zanno and Scott Sampson in  Vol. 25(4) of JVP. It was found by fellow 
Canadian Mike Getty in the Kaiparowits Formation a couple of years ago. He 
described what it looked like when he found it ... an articulated hand on 
one side of the wash and articulated foot on the opposite bank.  The rest of 
the animal was eroded away.  Too bad!

Andrew R. C. Milner
City Paleontologist
St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Bigelow" <bigelowp@juno.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 7:31 AM
Subject: Jive Turkey bones found in Utah


> New dinosaur discovered in southern Utah resembles large turkey
> ---------------------------------------------
> Fossils discovered in southern Utah are from a new species of birdlike
> dinosaur
> that resembled a 7-foot-tall brightly colored turkey and could run up to
> 25
> mph, scientists said Tuesday. Fossils of the meat-eater's hand-like claw
> and
> foot were found in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument near
> the
> Arizona border, giving paleontologists reason to believe some dinosaurs
> known
> as raptors roamed from Canada to northern New Mexico about 75 million
> years
> ago.
> http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2006-04-05-dinosaur-utah
> _x.htm