Re: Monster find at Hell Creek

[Jay <sappororaptor@yahoo.com>]

--- Laramie Roecker <vertpaleo@gmail.com> wrote:

> >Hey, on top of all that, i don't understand why these prints would be the
> oldest prints of T. rex
> >ever found - there doesn't seem to be much reason behind statements like
> this, explained in the
> >article.
> 
> If it's the first, it's also the oldest...and youngest =)

But we know its not the first. Hunt and Lockley previously described theropod 
tracks attributable
to T. rex in the early 1990s (Tyrannosauripus pillmorei).

> 
> 
> On 10/10/07, Jay <sappororaptor@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > --- "franklin e. bliss" <frank@blissnet.com> wrote:
> >
> > > De-lurking for a moment.....Looks like a patch of Caloplaca/
> > > Candelariella to me.  (a Lichen crust that grows on sandstones in the
> > > American West).  Nice pattern resembling a three toed track though.
> > > I see dragon shapes in clouds sometimes too.  Now granted the photo
> > > may not do it 3-D justice and my eyesight is not what it used to
> > > be......  Maybe the depressions collected moisture enabling lichen to
> > > grow and be happy there.  I would indicate that this surface
> > > indicated appears to me muddy and cracked and not on a well indurated
> > > sandstone that would well preserve such a print..  The black lichen
> > > is probably Lecidea atrobrunnea   Hummmmm.
> > > Frank (Rooster) Bliss
> > > MS Biostratigraphy
> > > Weston, Wyoming
> >
> > Hey, on top of all that, i don't understand why these prints would be the
> > oldest prints of T. rex
> > ever found - there doesn't seem to be much reason behind statements like
> > this, explained in the
> > article.
> >
> > > On Oct 10, 2007, at 12:57 AM, Jay wrote:
> > >
> > > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2187277,00.html
> >
> >
> >
> >
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