Re: Backwards brontosaur?

[John Wilkins <j.wilkins1@uq.edu.au>]

Also covered in

The Gilded Dinosaur : The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh  
and the Rise of American Science by Mark Jaffe

On 17/06/2006, at 5:02 AM, Danvarner@aol.com wrote:

> 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

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