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Re: Backwards brontosaur?
In a message dated 6/16/2006 2:37:35 PM Eastern Standard Time,
keesey@gmail.com writes:
<< Plesiosaur (specifically _Elasmosaurus_), not "brontosaur". The
mistake was made by none other than Edward Drinker Cope, and Othniel
Charles Marsh pointing it out and publicizing it is supposedly what
led do their feud. >>
Actually, it was Joseph Leidy who spotted the error. Marsh made use of it
later. See Mike Everhart's excellent article:
http://www.oceansofkansas.com/tale-tail.html
DV