Comments on: The Demise of a Wooden Dinosaur http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/05/the-demise-of-a-wooden-dinosaur/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Mark Robinson http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/05/the-demise-of-a-wooden-dinosaur/comment-page-1/#comment-6310 Mark Robinson Wed, 09 May 2012 04:28:33 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7801#comment-6310 Just to be clear, "Abbe" refers to Smets' position as a member of the French clergy. His first given name is Gerard. He's in exalted company though - Friedrich von Huene named <i>Succinodon</i> in 1941 from a fossil that he thought was a part of the jaw of a Titanosaur. In 1981 it was shown to also be fossilised wood but with borings created by a bivalve. Just to be clear, “Abbe” refers to Smets’ position as a member of the French clergy. His first given name is Gerard.

He’s in exalted company though – Friedrich von Huene named Succinodon in 1941 from a fossil that he thought was a part of the jaw of a Titanosaur. In 1981 it was shown to also be fossilised wood but with borings created by a bivalve.

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