THE PLESIOSAUR DIRECTORY NEWSLETTER. ISSUE 3
(Sunday 1st July 2007)
This issue is slightly delayed because I have been experiencing technical problems
with Topica, my newsletter host. As a temporary measure, I am sending this issue
manually by gmail, but hopefully the problems will be resolved soon. It is possible
that the original Topica email I sent is just delayed, in which case, please
ignore it when it arrives.
If you have any comments or recommendations on 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. Thanks! Adam
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NEWS
- A special exhibition entitled "Collecting Oklahoma" opened in the
Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, on the 16th of June 2007. The
exhibition features an original painting of an Elasmosaurus by artist Debby
Cotter Kaspari. I discussed in a previous news article (see Part 1) the initial
stages of the design process for this project. I am now pleased to reveal the
final work of art. Kaspari attended the grand opening of the event: "It
went great!" she explains, pictured here next to the finished Elasmosaurus
exhibit, "A wonderful turnout, lots of excitement, and the mural looked
really good up there. It's big, really big. And toothy"
For the full story with images, see:
http://www.plesiosauria.com/news.html#14
-On Monday the 18th of June, Hive Studios announced the first installment of
their animation library featuring some amazing animations of prehistoric animals,
including some plesiosaurs. Samples of the animations are available here:
http://web.mac.com/hivestudios/iWeb/hive%20studios/Products.html
The plesiosaur is Cryptoclidus, but it’s also worth checking out the Allosaurus
and Othnelia animations too. The animations feature in the ABC Science documentary
"CRUDE", all about crude oil. The documentary, including the plesiosaur
animations in Part 1, can be seen here:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/crude/
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UPDATES
A new genus has been added into the plesiosaur directory – the basal sauropterygian,
Lariosaurus: http://www.plesiosauria.com/lariosaurus.html
A new classification page has been added: http://www.plesiosauria.com/nothosauroidea.html
The following other updates have been made to existing pages:
3 new Plesiosaurus images (kind courtesy of sculptor Hirokazu Tokugawa http://www2.neweb.ne.jp/wc/A-fragi
)have been added to http://www.plesiosauria.com/plesiosaurus.html
I will add more of Tokugawa’s models to my site over the coming weeks.
Cladogram updated on http://www.plesiosauria.com/nothosauria.html
Image added to http://www.plesiosauria.com/eosauropterygia.html
All new images have been added to the image page: http://www.plesiosauria.com/images.html
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PDF-CORNER
This issue’s featured scientific article is by Andrews, on the skull of
Liopleurodon ferox.
http://www.plesiosauria.com/linkremoved
Full reference: Andrews, C. W. 1897. On the structure of the skull of a pliosaur.
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, 53, 177-185.
Please note that PDFs featured in ‘PDF-Corner’ will only be available
temporarily.
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FEATURED IMAGE
A 3D restoration of Pliosaurus by artist Arril Johnson. The actual model used
in this piece now accompanies the skull of the ‘Westbury Pliosaur 1’,
on display in the Bristol museum.
http://www.plesiosauria.com/arillsrestoration.jpg
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PICK OF THE WEB
Pick of the web this week coincides with the news story on plesiosaur animations.
They really are worth visiting twice! ;)
http://web.mac.com/hivestudios/iWeb/hive%20studios/Products.html
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WHERE’S PADDY?
Last issue paddy was hiding on the ‘Toys’ page. Congratulations
go to Nizar Ibrahim who was the first person to spot Paddy. Well done!
Keep your eyes peeled though because Paddy has gone missing again! 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. Find out more at http://www.plesiosauria.com/paddy.html
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