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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/WORLD Wednesday, September 30, 1998 Al3 Expert: Far-Flung Fossils Not Linked to Utah’s Allosaurus Armenia’s LeaderVisits Utah, ing the late Jurassic Period. Measuring upto THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SNOWBIRD — Scientists believed for years that a dinosaurankle bone from Australia was part of an Allosaurus — Utah's state fossil — while a dinosaur skull found in China wasrelated to the vicious Utah meat-eater. In two manydinosaurs, not just allosaurs. though not as large as Tyrannosaurus rex, Rich, vertebrate paleontologycurator at the Museum of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, the biggest meat-eaters of the Jurassic. whichlived later during the Cretaceous Peri- od (contrary to “Jurassic Park’). Numerous allosaurs have been excavated from the Cleveland-Lloyd Dinosaur Quarrysouth of Price Paleontologists Ralph Molnar, Tom Rich new studies, however, an expert concludes both claims are wron; “Our statefossil did not leave and goto the other side of the world,” said Dan Chure, paleontologist at Dinosaur National Monument on the Utah-Colorado border. If both the fossils really were allosaurs, it “would have implied Allosaurus was much more widespread than we previously thought,”’ he added. Churewasscheduled to present his findings on the Australian fossil today as 1,200 re- searchers from around the world converge on this mountainresort for the 58th annual meet- ing of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. His study on the Chinese fossil is to be presented Saturday. “We have two dinosaurs that people abeyance,” Rich said by e-mail from Mel- Cretaceous 110 million years ago — longafter allosaurs died out in Utah and North America “The Australians have arguedAustralia was a refugium — a place whereanimals hung on after they went extinct elsewherein the world at theend of the Jur: Chure said Rich broughtthe 5-inch-long, grooved, cylindrical piece of ankle bone to Utah in May and allowed Chureto examineit during a visit to Brigham Young University. Chure also studied casts of the bone and ankle bones from other dinosaurs. He concludedthe Australian fossil “is not an Allosawrus. It mayberelated to allosaurs, but therearea lot of things related to allosaurs. It is not an example of a late in Australia.” lived in Utah about 148 million years ago dur- Rich said he must study Chure’s list of features that argue the bone is not from Allosaurus and compare those with features on saurus, even thoughit lived during the early ing began. “Re-examination of the specimens showthey actually belong to other groups of carnivorous dinosaurs.” Chure said the sharp-clawed Allosaurus ble to him. Before he is convinced, however. other dinosaur ankles. ankle bone they found in Australia was Allo: Jurassic animalsurvivinginto the Cretaceous The counter-argument was based on similar features in the Australian bone and those from allosaurs, said Chure, but researchers Until then, “I hold myfinal judgment in bourne. Chure’s second study other bonesfroma di taisaurus maortuens ‘oundbya Soviet-Chinese expedition in Chinain 1959. Researchers have argued variously that it belonged to threedifferent groupsof dinosaurs,including that it was a closerelativeof allosaurs. Churesaid heexamined thefossils during a 1995 trip to Beijing. He concludedit is not an allosaur relative, but “it's somethingradically different.” “People havetalked about it being a transition between things like allosaurs and tyran- nosaurs,butit is no kind of transitional form. It's a much more advanced carnivorous dino- saur. It's up there with Tyrannosaurus rex, Troodon and Dromaeosaur [all nasty meat- eaters]. They form a very advanced group of carnivorous dinosaurscalled maniraptorans.”” HundredsLiving Near Nuclear Facilities Suffering Illnesses, Paper Says THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Hundreds of people living near or working at federal nuclear weaponsplants and research facilities in 11 states are suffering an array of unexplainedillnesses, The Tennessean reported Tuesday. The 410 peopleinterviewed by the newspaper have ailments including tremors, memory loss, fatigue and a variety of breathing, muscular and reproductive prob- lished between the illnesses and the Department of Energy (DOE) DOEwasnot awarethat people living and working at the sites had The 410 people are not a scientifie sampling and represent only a tiny percentage of the overall number of people wholive near or workatthe plants. similar, unexplained health prob- lems. makerssay it's large enough to warrant a comprehensive study to try to find the cause. “Four-hundred people is a lot of people.” said George Lucier, Their doctors cannot explain whythey aresick. toxicology programatthe Nation- Nodirect link has been estab- HealthSciences. sites. But doctors,scientists and law- director of the environmental al Institute of Environmental Invites Economic Investment lems, said Peter Brush, the agens acting assistant secretary for environment, safety and health The agencyha sponsored pub- can’t work on it,” Brush said. “They need to take care of themselves medically and get [toxic release] information on the s to take to their owndoctors. aving done that, they need to bring it to our attention.” During a 22-month investiga- lie meetings about health concernsat severalsites in the past few years, but Brush acknowl- residents and workers at 13 DOE sites in Tennessee, Colorado, edgedthe departmenthasnot taken a comprehensive look and has no plan to do so now. Kentucky, Texas and Washing- Hesaid it is up to the ill people tion, The Tennessean found ill South Carolina, New Mexico,Idaho, New York, California, Ohio, ton. ina news conference at the Huntsman Corporation headquartersat the University of Utah. “But I cer- BY MICHAEL NAKORYAKOV said Chure’s argumentinitially seems plausi- and othersfirst argued in 1981 that thepartial edto allosaurs,” Churesaid before the meet- thoughtto be either allosaurs or closely relat- since have realized those features occur in 35 feet long and7 or 8 feet tall, allosaurs were ‘THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE When former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev visited Arme- nia after its devastating 1988 earthquake, he complained about “those bearded Armenian nation- sts whoonlytalk of their insig. ant territorial dispute.” Ar LOS ANGELESTIMES » | limiting defense spending. In a sharp-edged confrontation, GOP members of the Senate Armed Services Committee charged that readiness had beenfalling long before the chiefs’ recently declared a need for substantial increasesin the defense budget. Suchanincrease would reverse 14 yearsof falling defense budgets. “This readiness crisis didn’t come out of nowhere,” complained Sen. Bob Smith, R-N.H. “You and your predecessors presided overit. Thechiefs say that to close the readinessgap, they will need up to $6.3 billion more than the $271 billion in authorized defense spending for fiscal 1999, have done for us.” was among “those nationalists Gorbachevdisliked so much said Since the December earthquake that killed thou in the mountainous country alist Jon M. Huntsman, may not have a beard — but hecertainly Things have changed since en In the latest Russian presiden- tial race, Gorbachev received about0.5 percentofthe vote. 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