Oxytropidoceras Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Newly Discovered Dinosaur Fossil Had Sat In Museum For 75 Years by Thomas Tamblyn The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/26/new-dinosaur-discovery-museum_n_6224294.html New species of dinosaur discovered lying forgotten in a museum, PhysOrg, November 26, 2014 http://phys.org/news/2014-11-species-dinosaur-lying-forgotten-museum.html New species of dinosaur discovered lying forgotten in a museum, University of Bath Press Release http://www.bath.ac.uk/research/news/2014/11/25/new-dinosaur-discovered/ Fossils reveal TWO new species of dinosaurs that roamed North America 75 million years ago (The fossilised bones from two dinosaurs had been stored for 75 years) by Jonathan O'Callaghan, Mail Online, Nov. 25, 2014 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2849070/Fossils-reveal-TWO-new-species-dinosaurs-roamed-North-America-75-million-years-ago.html BBC News - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02ct3k4 The paper is: Longrich, N. R., 2014, The horned dinosaurs Pentaceratops and Kosmoceratops from the upper Campanian of Alberta and implications for dinosaur biogeography. Cretaceous Research. vol. 51, pp. 292-308. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195667114001293 Yours, Paul H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarleysGh0st Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Nice! Some of the articles mention the bones "lying forgotten in a museum" for 75 years as if that was a bad thing, but this is actually an example of a museum collection doing the job it's intended to do. Discoveries don't stop with the scientist who first collects and identifies a fossil. If the specimen and its associated collection information are properly curated, they can lead to new research decades or even centuries later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tmaier Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Also people should note that it wasn't like they just threw these fossils in a back room and forgot about them. What made it possible to interpret those old fossils as new species was the discovery of new species that helped to refine the understanding of the variability in the morphology and range of genus. It allow a re-interpretation of the fossils. It's not like the janitor was poking around in a closet and said "Hey! Who dumped this here?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DD1991 Posted November 26, 2014 Share Posted November 26, 2014 Some people may find it hard to take Longrich's paper recording Pentaceratops from Alberta, but finding a New Mexican dino in Canada is not w/o precedent b/c Parasaurolophus has been found in Alberta as well as the southwestern US, and Gryposaurus occurs from Utah northward to Alberta. In this case, the notion of separate northern and southern dino provinces in the Western Interior is somewhat blurred. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triceratops Posted November 27, 2014 Share Posted November 27, 2014 Good news! The list of horned dino species just gets bigger. -Lyall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arion Posted November 28, 2014 Share Posted November 28, 2014 How much you wanna bet P. aquilonius gets a new genus in the next decade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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