THE PLESIOSAUR DIRECTORY
NEWSLETTER. ISSUE 1
(Sunday 3rd June 2007)
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I have decided to create this Newsletter firstly to reach out to regular visitors
to my site (and hopefully to create more), and secondly to prompt me into being
more regular with site updates and page additions. The current plan is to release
a new issue of the Newsletter every other week. Although the list of subscribers
is modest at the moment,
I’m sure this will change with time. Tell your friends and colleagues!
Each Newsletter will be formatted into a number of sections. ‘News’
will be a round up of recent news stories and scientific papers. ‘Updates’
will outline recent additions to The Plesiosaur Directory website – I
will endeavour to crate a major update every fortnight. ‘PDF corner’
will host a temporary link to a PDF plesiosaur article from my collection. “Featured
Image” will provide a link to one of my favourite images from The Plesiosaur
Directory or elsewhere on the web. “Pick of the web” will provide
a link to a recommended and related website/page. For kids (and those young
at heart!) I have devised ‘Where’s Paddy?’ Be the first to
find Paddy the Plesiosaur and get a special mention in next weeks Newsletter!
Finally, ‘Ads’ will explain what’s new in the Plesio-Store.
If you have any comments or recommendations for how I can improve this newsletter,
if you want to recommend a link, image or PDF to feature in a future issue of
the newsletter, if you have any corrections, or if you think you are the first
to find Paddy, please contact me at plesiosauria@gmail.com. Enjoy! Adam
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NEWS
Hydrorion – a new plesiosaur from Germany.
The most recent issue of the ‘Palaeontology’ (Vol 49, Part 3) features
an article by Franziska Grossman on the plesiosauroids from the Jurassic Posidonia
Shale in Germany. Grossman describes the skulls of two genera, Seeleyosaurus
guilelmiimperatoris (a tongue-twister of a taxon! - formerly Plesiosaurus guilelmiimperatoris)
and introduces a new genus Hydrorion brachypterygius (formerly Plesiosaurus
brachypterygius). Interestingly, Grossman analyses the holotype of ‘Plesiopterys’,
a genus erected by O’Keefe (2004), and identifies it as a juvenile of
Seeleyosaurus. Another major consequence of this paper is the removal of these
species from Plesiosaurus, a genus which now contains only one valid species:
P. dolichodeirus.
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UPDATES
Following a recent research trip to Stuttgart, I have added some new images,
notably to the _Rhomaleosaurus_ page: http://www.plesiosauria.com/rhomaleosaurus.html
And _Simosaurus_ page:
http://www.plesiosauria.com/simosaurus.html
This new images have also been added to the images page http://www.plesiosauria.com/images.html
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PDF-CORNER
This scientific article featured in this issue is about the giant pliosaur Brachauchenius.
-Link removed-
Full reference: Hampe, 0. 2005. Considerations on a Brachauchenius skeleton
(Pliosauroidea) from the lower Paja Formation (late Barremian) of Villa de Leyva
area (Colombia). Mitt. Mus. Nat.kd. Berl., Geowiss. Reihe 8. 37-51.
Please note that PDFs featured in ‘PDF-Corner’ will only be available
temporarily.
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FEATURED IMAGE
The destroyed holotype of Attenborosaurus. My favourite plesiosaur!
http://www.plesiosauria.com/attenboro.jpg
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PICK OF THE WEB
‘John Payne Studios -Plesiasaur’. OK, so ‘plesiosaur’
is spelled wrong and the neck is all bendy. Nevertheless this movie of a ‘Kinetic
Sculpture’, a plesiosaur produced by John Payne Studios, is at least entertaining.
http://www.paynestudios.com/movies_ples.htm
And a still photo:
http://www.paynestudios.com/gal_bw_03.htm
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WHERE’S PADDY?
Keep your eyes peeled, because Paddy is in town! Paddy the Plesiosaur is a cartoon
plesiosaur with a letter P on his back - and he is hiding somewhere on the Plesiosaur
Directory Website! Be the first to find him and get a special mention in next
weeks Newsletter! Just email me at plesiosauria@gmail.com with the subject ‘I
found Paddy’ and tell me what page he is hiding on. Hopefully you will
even learn something about plesiosaurs on your search! Of course, Paddy will
find a new hiding place for every new issue of the Newsletter. Find out more
at http://www.plesiosauria.com/paddy.html
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ADS
Lydekker’s 1889 Catalogue of the Fossil Reptilia and Amphibia in the British
Museum (Natural History): Part 2. Containing the Orders Ichthyopterygia and
Sauropterygia (Paperback), is now available for just $23.99:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1402105886?ie=UTF8&tag=theplesdire-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1402105886
or visit the Plesio-Store at http://www.plesiosauria.com/store.html
