RE: Asia's Largest Dinosaur?

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu [mailto:owner-DINOSAUR@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Botterweg, Rrp
>
> Well, I suppose it depends how you consider it. Very large tracks have been 
> found in north-western China (Yongjing County
> in Gansu province, 2001). And it all pales in comparison with 
> Bruhathkayosaurus anyway.

Ummm... It is still really, really, really, really uncertain that 
Bruhathkayosaurus is not a piece of petrified wood. So I would
hold off on using that as data.

> Isn't there a (heavily reconstructed) very large skeleton of an sauropod 
> (Omeisaurus ?) somewhere? I saw something like
> that on TV a few years ago (NGC, Discovery?), on display in a US museum, 
> being mentioned as the largest Asian dinosaur
> skeleton (and I don't mean Mamenchisaurus, this one was taller and heavier).

That's Nurosaurus.

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