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Re: New in JVP

Phil Bigelow (bigelowp@juno.com) wrote:

<Johnson K. R., D. Nichols, C. Labandeira, and D. Pearson. 2000. Devastation of
terrestrial ecosystems at the K-T boundary in North America: The first
calibrated record of plant and animal response to the Chicxulub impact. 
Catastrophic Events and Mass Extinctions: Impacts and Beyond, Vienna, pp.
85-86, LPI Contribution No. 1053, Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston.>

  I have no idea if the azhdarchid specimen IS the same one. However, I do know
it is the first Hell Creek azhdarchid so far, possibly *Queztalcoatlus* itself.
This is probably the same specimen mentioned as recovered with "Jane," from the
Burpee:

[cached from Google]:
http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:bOSEqgVjCzgJ:www.burpee.org/janebones.htm+Hell+Creek+azhdarchid&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

  "The "Flying Reptile" found buried with Jane  

  "One of the bones uncovered in the plaster field jacket brought from Jane's
   discovery site was a 14-inch long, very thin, cervical (neck) vertebra. This
   elongate and delicate bone could not possibly belong to Jane, but it did
   belong to a pterosaur. 

  "The cervical vertebra belongs to a member of the pterosaur family,
   azhdarchidae. This family contained some of the last and largest known
   pterosaurs. The cervical vertebra found at the ?Jane? site, probably came
   from an individual azhdarchid pterosaur, with an estimated neck length of 5
   feet and an estimated wingspan of around 20 feet.  This is the first
   documented record of this group of pterosaurs from the Hell Creek Formation,
   and is currently under study at the Burpee Museum.  The results of this work
   will be published as a research paper in the near future."

  Cheers,

Jaime A. Headden
http://bitestuff.blogspot.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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