Re: Age Abstractions

[Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>]

William_Parker@nps.gov writes:
 > >  > > Fassett, J.E. 2007. The documentation of in-place dinosaur
 > >  > > fossils in the Paleocene Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Animas Formation
 > >  > > in the San Juan Basin of New Mexico and Colorado mandates a
 > >  > > paradigm shift: dinosaurs can no longer be thought of as absolute
 > >  > > index fossils for end-Cretaceous strata in the Western Interior
 > >  > > of North America. New Mexico Geology 29(2):56.
 > >  >
 > >  > This abstract IS notable for having the longest title I have ever
 > >  > seen for a publication...50 words!  It is pretty much an abstract
 > >  > in its own right!
 > > 
 > > Pah!  Puny!
 > > 
 > > Through the wonder of class Victorian-era Wealden palaeontology, I
 > > offer you ... sixty words!
 > > 
 > > Hulke, J. W.  1880.  Iguanodon Prestwichii, a new Species from the
 > > Kimmeridge Clay, distinguished from I. Mantelli of the Wealden
 > > Formation in the S.E. of England and Isle of Wight by Differences in
 > > the Shape of the Vertebral Centra, by fewer than five Sacral
 > > Vertebrae, by the simpler Character of its Tooth-serrature, &c.,
 > > founded on numerous fossil remains lately discovered at Cumnor, near
 > > Oxford.  Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 36: 433-456.
 > > doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1880.036.01-04.36
 >
 > aaa...no....I concede.  Leave it to the Victorians to come out on top.
 > Still it only wins by 10 words.... too bad the SVP abstract deadline has
 > passed...
 > 
 > Your move.

It's true that in simply numeric terms, the Iguanodon title is only
ten words longer than the the Fasset one; but what I love about it is
that it includes a differential diagnosis.  Really, why would you need
to read the actual paper after that?  Only for the acknowledgement,
really :-)

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