paleonet Dolichorhynchops - MCZ 1064

["Mike Everhart" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,
I am interested in locating historic information / photographs / articles
regarding a specimen of the short-necked plesiosaur,  _Dolichorhynchops
osborni_ (MCZ 1064) at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard
University.  So far as I am aware, it was never formally described.

The specimen was collected in the Smoky Hill Chalk of Logan County, Kansas,
by George Sternberg in 1926 and, at the time, was only the second set of
relatively complete remains, including an articulated skull, known. G.
Sternberg had also found the holotype specimen 25 years earlier. It was
apparently acquired by Harvard as a slab mount (skeleton mounted in plaster)
from Sternberg around 1926 and had been on exhibit in the MCZ until fairly
recently....

I would appreciate hearing about the whereabouts of pictures of the exhibit
(or publications that contained them) that may have been taken over the
years... or any other background information that may be available.

Please contact me off-list: mike@oceansofkansas.com

Regards,

Mike Everhart, Webmaster
Oceans of Kansas Paleontology
www.oceansofkansas.com