Re: [dinosaur] Ascendonanus + Brontopodus plagenensis tracks + Arboroharamiya + more

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Oops. I read 'tetrapod' as 'theropod'. It's just as hilarious a name for a 
lizard as a dinosaur.


On Wed, Nov 15th, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au> wrote:

> I'm guessing whoever named a dinosaur 'ascend on anus' wasn't a native
> English speaker. :-)
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15th, 2017 at 5:16 AM, Ben Creisler <bcreisler@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Ascendonanus nestleri (I can't find a published description yet), earliest
> > known tree-climbing tetrapod, to be featured  in a talk by German
> > paleontologist (and paleoartist) Frederik Spindler at the Chemnitz Natural
> > History Museum about the Permian fossils found at Chemnitz, preserving an
> > ancient forest with plants and animals thanks to pyroclastic volcanism,
> > including five specimens of Ascendonanus, nicknamed "Schnappi" (in German)

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 Dann Pigdon
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