RE: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

  Also, to annoy the [ancient] British. Attempts to eradicate Welsh (Caemryg 
[=Cymric]) nearly proved successful.

Cheers,

  Jaime A. Headden
  The Bite Stuff (site v2)
  http://qilong.wordpress.com/

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)


"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a
different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race
has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion 
Backs)


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> Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:11:11 +0000
> From: keenir@hotmail.com
> To: ron.orenstein@rogers.com; archosauromorph2@hotmail.com; dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: RE: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid
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> > Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:03:52 -0800
> > From: ron.orenstein@rogers.com
> > To: archosauromorph2@hotmail.com; dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Subject: Re: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid
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> > God, I hope that no one discovers any new dinosaurs in Wales....
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> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogochensis?
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> thank you, wiki.
> _The 58-character name 
> Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch is the famous name 
> of a town on Anglesey, an island of Wales. This place's name is actually 51 
> letters long, as certain character groups in Welsh are considered as one 
> letter, for instance ll, ng and ch. It is generally agreed, however, that 
> this invented name, adopted in the mid-19th century, was contrived solely to 
> be the longest name of any town in Britain. The official name of the place is 
> Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, commonly abbreviated to Llanfairpwll or the somewhat 
> jocular Llanfair PG._
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> > Ronald Orenstein
> > 1825 Shady Creek Court
> > Mississauga, ON L5L 3W2
> > Canada
> > ronorenstein.blogspot.com
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> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Brad McFeeters <archosauromorph2@hotmail.com>
> > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > Cc:
> > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 10:51:24 AM
> > Subject: RE: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid
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> > According to Ramírez-Velasco et al., _Huehuecanauhtlus_ should be 
> > pronounced “UEUE-CANA-UHh-TLUS”. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how one would 
> > pronounce “UEUE-CANA-UHh-TLUS” either.
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> > > Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:51:32 +1100
> > > From: dannj@alphalink.com.au
> > > To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> > > Subject: Re: Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, new Santonian hadrosauroid
> > >
> > > In lieu of a pronunciation guide, I think I'll call this fellow 'Huey' 
> > > for short. :-)
> > >
> > > On Thu, Feb 16th, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jay <jayp.nair@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis
> > > >
> > > > Ramírez-Velasco AA, Benammi M, Prieto-Márquez A, Ortega JA, 
> > > > Hernández-Rivera R (2012)
> > > > Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis, a new hadrosauroid dinosaur 
> > > > (Ornithischia: Ornithopoda) from the
> > > > Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of Michoacán, Mexico. Canadian Journal of 
> > > > Earth Sciences 49(2):
> > > > 379-395.
> > > > http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/e11-062
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis gen. et sp. nov. is the southernmost 
> > > > diagnostic basal hadrosauroid
> > > > in the Americas. The holotype and referred material of this taxon came 
> > > > from Santonian strata in
> > > > the Michoacán State, southwestern Mexico. Huehuecanauhtlus tiquichensis 
> > > > is diagnosed on the
> > > basis
> > > > of a combination of dental, axial, and appendicular characters, 
> > > > including the following: at least
> > > > two teeth exposed on the occlusal plane of the dentary and maxilla; 
> > > > seven sacral vertebrae; tall
> > > > neural spines of caudal vertebrae; supraacetabular process long; and 
> > > > short and trapezoidal (in
> > > > lateral view) postacetabular process. It differs from other 
> > > > hadrosauroids in having an ilium with
> > > > extreme ventral deflection of the preacetabular process. Maximum
> > > > parsimony cladistic analysis placed H. tiquichensis as a closely 
> > > > related outgroup to
> > > > Hadrosauridae. The occurrence of H. tiquichensis in the Santonian of 
> > > > North America may be
> > > > explained as a dispersal event from Asia to North America that occurred 
> > > > no later than the Albian
> > > > or, alternatively, as a vicariant event of a most recent common 
> > > > ancestor widespread in both
> > > > landmasses.
> > >
> > > --
> > > _____________________________________________________________
> > >
> > > Dann Pigdon
> > > Spatial Data Analyst Australian Dinosaurs
> > > Melbourne, Australia http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj
> > > _____________________________________________________________
> > >