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James, Thanks... I really wish I could have gotten it published in the Proceedings of the ANSP where it belongs with Cope's papers on the same specimen ... but the senior editor there got his walking papers before I could get it submitted, and then I was dealing with someone who didn't know much about Cope and wasn't a paleontologist.... Actually the first version got one thumb up and one down... the editor had it reviewed a third time and it got a second thumbs down... The two reviewers who turned it down weren't terribly helpful with constructive comments, either, but I finally got it re-written and much improved. When I was finished with it, I just wanted to get it published, so I sent it to PalArch ... their reviewers really liked the paper and both encouraged me to go with a better journal... but by then I was tired of messing with it. Mike >Nice articel I downloaded it and read it. >Glad you got it published and also that you told us why it was >originally rejected. > >James Mahaffy (mahaffy@dordt.edu) Phone: 712 722-6279 >498 4th Ave NE >Biology Department FAX : 712 >722-1198 >Dordt College, Sioux Center IA 51250-1697 > > >>>>mike@oceansofkansas.com 12/05/05 1:36 PM >>> >>>> >>>> >All, >Time for another bit of shameless self promotion... > >I added a new web page (please do not cite): >< http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Eplatyurus.html > > >*... that is based on *based a recently published article: >*Everhart, M. J. 2005. Elasmosaurid remains from the Pierre Shale (Upper > >Cretaceous) of western Kansas. Possible missing elements of the type >specimen of /Elasmosaurus platyurus/ Cope 1868? PalArch 4(3): 19-32. >* > >*A FREE .pdf version of the original paper is available from PalArch: >< http://www.palarch.nl/Palaeontology/palaeontology.htm> >* > >*The web page is an updated version of the article with a lot more >illustrations, links to other relevant papers and OOK pages. I will be >the first to admit that the hypothesis a bit more than speculative, and >that the original version of the paper was rejected by the Proceedings >of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia for good reasons. >Reviewers and others whom I have shared the information with are pretty >much equally divided regarding my conclusion. The whole idea that two >sets of remains found more than a mile apart are from the same animal >that died 80 some million years ago is a major stretch of the >imagination... however, explaining away two sets of similar remains >collected at the same stratigraphic level whose elements are mutually >exclusive also requires some doing, especially with the fairly detailed >in-situ descriptions of the specimen provided by Dr. Turner and Prof. >Cope. I cannot "prove" anything at this point, but it makes an >interesting story IMHO. >* > >*That being said, the paper / webpage is a fairly complete account of >the history and "who's who" in regard to the discovery and study of the >type (and only) specimen of /Elasmosaurus platyurus/, and the so-called > >"second specimen." It **is also, to some extent, a puzzling >paleo-mystery. I included some new findings (and photographs) regarding >the type specimen: (another(!) cervical vertebrae; additional, >unreported elements of the skull and jaws, a gastrolith lodged in one of > >the caudal vertebra, etc.) Not exactly paleo-rocket science, but I >thought it was an enjoyable "history of paleontology" project. >* > >*Regards, >* > >Mike Everhart >Adjunct Curator of Paleontology >Sternberg Museum of Natural History >Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS >www.oceansofkansas.com > >*Also new at OOK: >An amateur's collection of Kansas shark teeth ... made 65 years ago: >< http://www.oceansofkansas.com/Lederhos.html > >* > >*Rapid evolution, diversification and distribution of mosasaurs >(non-peer reviewed); >< http://www.oceansofkansas.com/RapidMosa.html > > >* > >*** * > >* >* > > > >**** > > > > > > > >
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