Re: Big new Ankylosaur or Stegosaur (Polacanthid, actually)

[Cliff Green <dinonaut@emerytelcom.net>]

Dear Ken and List,

    Super nope. Actually the reporter got that part of the story correct.
This was part of a media feeding frenzy that took place here last week, with
our own Dr. Reese Barrick. The gigantic armored dinosaur mentioned isn't the
triple XL nodosaur from your sites and our Price River 2 site, here in
Carbon County, Utah. It is a humongeous polacanthid found at the new Suarez
Sisters site, just south of the Chrystal Geyser site. This locality is also
a Falcarius bonebed.
    The press release showed some armor, a Gastonia sculpture by some guy,
and a pretty complete four foot rib. The armor consists of some dorsal
shield material, and a bug chewed spike; all similar to the much smaller
Gastonia fossils.I did some number crunching, based on our 18 foot long
Gastonia's rib size, and conservatively, this animal was 7.5 meters long,
and 1.5 meters at the hips. But who knows? maybe it dragged it's ribs around
in specially made trenches, just like those 19th century German sauropod
Paleontologists envisioned. ;-)

Best,

Cliff

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Ken.Carpenter@dmns.org>
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Subject: RE: Big new Ankylosaur or Stegosaur (Polacanthid, actually)


> Nope, it is the new nodosaurid found in a bonebed dominated by
> brachiosaurid sauropods. Reporter screwed up the facts.
> K
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> Subject: Big new Ankylosaur or Stegosaur (Polacanthid, actually)
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> I think he may be thinking about the giant 5-ton
> (10,000lbs) Polacanthid that they just found in Utah.
>
> Here is the link:
>
> http://www.local6.com/news/9291775/detail.html
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> On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:07:20 -0700 (PDT), DINOSAUR@usc.edu wrote:
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> >
> >
> >     DINOSAUR Digest 3587
> >
> > Topics covered in this issue include:
> >
> >   1) Re: Ceratops (was RE: Pterosaur diversity (was:
> > Re: Waimanu))
> > by "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
> >   2) Re: Ceratops (was RE: Pterosaur diversity (was:
> > Re: Waimanu))
> > by Jay <sappororaptor@yahoo.com>
> >   3) Re: Sengis (was RE: Pterosaur diversity (was: Re:
> > Waimanu))
> > by Tim Williams <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
> >   4) Eight new species discovered in ancient Israeli cave
> > by Rose Alexander <ralexander56@sbcglobal.net>
> >   5) In search of type specimens
> > by mike@miketaylor.org.uk (Mike Taylor)
> >   6) NEW ankylosaur or Stegosaur
> > by Ian Paulsen <birdbooker@zipcon.net>
>
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