Re: 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found in Japan

[Michael Lange <Michael.Lange@gmx.ch>]

Judging from the photo, it looks like the posterodorsal part of the skull (e.g. 
squamosal-postorbital), but (at least for me) its difficult to say. Is this it 
or is more of the skull known?

Michael

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:24:16 -0500
> Von: Andy Grass <adgrass@gmail.com>
> An: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Betreff: Re: 85 million-year-old dinosaur skull found in Japan

> The Japanese articles I found about it say literally "amateur fossil
> researcher" (his name is Yuuji Tomita, btw). I suppose the word could
> be translated as expert, but it's not how I'd do it.
> http://www.asahi.com/science/update/1013/SEB200710130001.html
> http://www.47news.jp/CN/200710/CN2007101301000185.html
> 
> On 10/13/07, franklin e. bliss <frank@blissnet.com> wrote:
> > I stand educated.  I had never heard the usage before.  Sounds like a
> > lot of us on the list.
> > Thanks
> > Frank (Rooster) Bliss
> > Weston, Wyoming
> > www.wyomingdinosaurs.com
> > On Oct 13, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Richard W. Travsky wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, franklin e. bliss wrote:
> > >> http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST26647120071013
> > >>
> > >> And I quote the article......
> > >>
> > >> "The fossil was found in February 2004 by an amateur expert, but only
> > >> identified as the skull of a hadrosaurid after a delicate cleaning
> > >> process."
> > >>
> > >> I am trying to figure out what an amateur expert is???   I do know
> > >> a few expert amateurs.  Must be the translation.
> > >
> > > Um, an amateur expert is one who is not getting paid ;)
> > >
> > > http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/amateur
> > >
> > > a person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for
> > > pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons
> > > ...
> > > A person who engages in an art, science, study, or athletic
> > > activity as a pastime rather than as a profession.
> > > ...
> >
> >

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