Re: paleonet When Mosasaurs Swam in North America

["Frank Holterhoff" <frank@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, yes, it's all about marketability, unfortunately.

Meanwhile, I wonder who Roger would want to play himself in the movie.  I
can see it now, the world-famous ostracode-ologist removes his hat and
cranes his neck up to the sky in awe..um, scratch that, cranes his neck down
to the waist-deep lagoonal muck in awe...

-F

----- Original Message -----
From: Kaesler, Roger L <kaesler@ku.edu>
To: <paleonet@nhm.ac.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 7:19 AM
Subject: RE: paleonet When Mosasaurs Swam in North America


> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am made weary by those marketers of plastic dinosaurs and other such
> trinkets who include in their sets of dinosaurs such critters as
Dimetrodon,
> ichythyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.  Maybe it is not too bad for
the
> mosasaurs to be omitted from TV programs on dinosaurs, but it would be
super
> to have a program on the other, nondinosaurian, marine and flying
reptiles.
> Just for the record, the ostracodes-my favorite group-were omitted from
the
> dinosaurs show, too,  Absolutely no mention was made of that scourge of
the
> seaways Henryhowella tenmilecreekensis and its hypothetical sibling
species
> H. rex.  What is this world coming to, where is it going, and what's with
> the hand basket?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Roger
>
> Roger L. Kaesler
> Paleontological Institute-University of Kansas
> Lindley Hall
> 1475 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 121
> Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2911
> (785) 864-3338 = telephone
> (785) 864-5276 = FAX
> http://www.ukans.edu/~paleo/
>
> It is our job as editors to find meaning where none was intended.
>
>
>