RE: No kidding around with Tinker

[Dinosaur World <dinoworld@msn.com>]

I took a film crew to Penn. back in 2004 to film Tinker being taken out of 
its jackets. We were going to do a story on him, but then put it on hold 
once we found that Barry James had filed bankruptcy and it was tied up in 
court. There are actually TWO juvenile rexs in the jackets, not just Tinker. 
We nicknamed the other one, Belle.

There was a lot of other incredible things found in that same quarry, 
including remains of an adult rex, and unidentified theropod, and lots of 
crock stuff. Tinker appeared to have the remains of a hadrosaur leg in its 
stomach. May have been his last meal.

I hope the county is able to get in there and recover what is left of Belle, 
as well as Tinker and the adult rex.

> From what we saw, the remains of Tinker were in good shape and well taken 
care of, but lord know what kind of records, if any, were kept.

This could have been an incredible discovery for Paleontology. Really 
shameful.

George




From: mkirkaldy@aol.com
Reply-To: mkirkaldy@aol.com
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: No kidding around with Tinker
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:04:02 -0400

Folks will remember the elaborate website and publicity spun for Tinker the 
Kid Rex a few years ago.  The court ruling for its finders:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/3960711.html
Land surveys are a wonderful thing.

Note that the people who were doing the preparation and who subsequently 
filed for bankruptcy were involved in some other things:
http://dml.cmnh.org/2002Sep/msg00583.html

Mary
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