http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/02/the-rediscovery-of-gordo-the-barosaurus/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/02/the-rediscovery-of-gordo-the-barosaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-3635 Robert J. Sawyer Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:50:49 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=4759#comment-3635 "Gordo" is named for Gordon Edmund, former curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum. “Gordo” is named for Gordon Edmund, former curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/02/the-rediscovery-of-gordo-the-barosaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-3613 BathTub Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:26:05 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=4759#comment-3613 It's the rediscovery of Gordo, not Barosaurus as a dinosaur. It’s the rediscovery of Gordo, not Barosaurus as a dinosaur.

]]> http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2011/02/the-rediscovery-of-gordo-the-barosaurus/comment-page-1/#comment-3612 James Robins Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:51:28 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=4759#comment-3612 Curious...to a generation of junior Dinosaur buffs this was possibly the most familiar sauropod, due to a Dorling Kindersley picture book by William Lindsay (1993), titled 'Barosaurus'. Numerous (rather unfortunate) reconstructions were included, with references to life-style, diet etc., and as I recall, an extended photo-feature on the erection of a mounted skeleton...? Curious that in only eighteen years it should have disappeared so completely, and have to be 'rediscovered'. J Curious…to a generation of junior Dinosaur buffs this was possibly the most familiar sauropod, due to a Dorling Kindersley picture book by William Lindsay (1993), titled ‘Barosaurus’. Numerous (rather unfortunate) reconstructions were included, with references to life-style, diet etc., and as I recall, an extended photo-feature on the erection of a mounted skeleton…? Curious that in only eighteen years it should have disappeared so completely, and have to be ‘rediscovered’. J

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