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Wich2		#141	[-]
(06/30/08 11:03 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Aw, geez, next you're gonna tell me they didn't strobe when moving, and roar like lions! -Craig W.
Don Glut		#142	[-]
(06/30/08 11:05 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Ah, you caught me just before leaving for a 2-week vacation in Chicago (including attending G-Fest) and being away from email access most of the time: Traditionally, all carnivorous dinosaurs (theropods) were classified in one of two groups -- Coelurosauria (all small-bodied forms) and Carnosauria (large-bodied forms). Because of its huge size, Tyrannosaurus (as well as Allosaurus, Ceratosaurus and other large theropods) were classified as carnosaurs. For a while, these two groups were regarded as artificial groupings, set in quotation marks and largely ignored. In 1994, paleontologist Tom Holtz, a theropod specialist, published a ground-breaking study in which he proposed that these two clades were, in fact, real, but that features such as size have little or no phylogenetic significance. Tom redefined these two major theropod clades, with Carnosauria (including such famous genera as Allosaurus) the more primitive group, and Coelurosauria (the more derived and more birdlike). Surprisingly, Tom's analysis of the morphology of Tyrannosaurus bones revealed characters (as in the structure of the lower hind limbs) shared with coelurosaurs. Tom's analysis was adopted by other paleontologists and Tyrannosaurus is now regarded as a very large coelurosaur. Ceratosaurus, as it turned out, is a more primitive kind of theropod that belongs neither to Carnosauria or Coelurosauria, but, in fact, belongs to its more "basal" clade Ceratosauria. Hope I answered your Monday morning question. Dinosaur Don
BijouBob8mm		#143	[-]
(06/30/08 11:09 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks, Don! Enjoy G-Fest. Dennis (Druktenis) said he's going to be on hand. Wish I could make it.
Don Glut		#144	[-]
(06/30/08 11:40 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks. And for one last free plug: Dan Golden has finished authoring the BLOOD SCARAB DVD and it goes to replication this week. Should be ready for shipping when I return to California in mid-July.
Wich2		#145	[-]
(06/30/08 11:43 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Travel safe, and enjoy your ancestral home, Don! -Craig W.
M F Berry		#146	[-]
(06/30/08 11:45 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Wow, have a good time at G-Fest, Don! I wish I was going, too -- say hello for me to Allen Debus if he's there! FYI CHFB-ers (plug alert): I'm honored to be a co-forewordist with Don for Allen Debus's excellent book, Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction, which hasn't received nearly as much attention as it deserves ... everyone who's an aficionado of classic (or recent!) dinosaur-themed fiction should check it out. I think you'll enjoy this volume from Mr. Debus, a frequent contributor to G-FAN, Prehistoric Times, and Fossil News. (Okay, so Don's foreword is a wee bit better than mine ... I'm plugging the book anyway ...) Last Edited By: M F Berry 06/30/08 11:47 AM. Edited 1 times.
Wich2		#147	[-]
(06/30/08 11:55 AM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Congrats, MF!
M F Berry		#148	[-]
(06/30/08 12:18 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Thanks Wich! Allen's book has been out for some time now, but as much as I love McFarland, both as one of their authors and as a devoted reader (and now a forewordist!), we all know that they don't exactly promote the bejabbers out of their books. Consequently, as I mentioned, Dinosaurs in Fantastic Fiction just hasn't gotten as much buzz as it rightly should. Last Edited By: M F Berry 06/30/08 12:21 PM. Edited 1 times.
BijouBob8mm		#149	[-]
(06/30/08 4:41 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Based on Debus' past work, I'm looking forward to the book...and to Don's latest feature, BLOOD SCARAB, which looks like a blast!
bipolarber		#150	[-]
(07/01/08 12:07 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Well, just to bring the thread a little bit back to it's roots... I'm hip deep in my research on zeppelins, and the period (roughly 1918). So far, I basing the captain of the LZ-93 (my hypothetical airship) on the real life Peter Strasser, who was the head of zeppelin operations for Germany during those years. (Quite a colorful man, the prototype for the "crazed zeppelin commander" who orders his men to sacrifice themselves to save his ship.) Don, I don't suppose you could, once you are back from your G-fest jaunt, tell me what some good reference material on pterosaurs would be? Any good books available, written for the layman?
Don Glut		#151	[-]
(07/02/08 9:19 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	In Chicago, but got to a computer today. Best all-around and up-to-date book: THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PTEROSAURS (pretty sure that's the exact title) by Peter Wellnhofer. Great art, too!
bipolarber		#152	[-]
(07/03/08 1:04 PM) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite	Perfect! Thanks Don! (off to the library...)

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