Guest Book- Previous Entries
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[With my responses. And yes, I know that a lot of the entries say they heard about DinoWight from the Author, but I’m allowed to tell people about my site, am I not? DW] |
Name : adam stuart smith
Occupation : palaeostudent
Location : coventry
E-mail : adam_stuart_smith@hotmail.com
Web address : http://www.geocities.com/dinobiscuits/index.html
Question/Comment : I like the smooth look of your site! i have already tried to sign this guestbook but it diddnt seem to work.
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Name : Jordan Mallon
Occupation : Student
Location : Canada
E-mail : j_mallon@hotmail.com
Web address : http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/
Question/Comment : Neat site! I don't know why no one hasn't yet done something like this before, but it's about time! I'll be sure to come back here often...
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Name : Trevor Dykes
Occupation : Yes
Location : Nuremberg
E-mail : ktdykes@nexgo.de
Web address : http://home.nexgo.de/ktdykes/tress.htm
Question/Comment : A nicely put together collection of dinosaurs. I didn't know about the Baryonyx finds on the Iow. Not surprisingly, there's some overlap with my on-line Grockle's Guide to Dorset Dinos, which is a much more modest effort. Have fun...
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[I get the feeling that more shall be heard of Trevor Dykes…( See The Dinosauricon guest book) DW] |
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Name : Alex
Occupation : bum
Location : Chippenham
Question/Comment : Very good very profesional
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Name : Trevor Dykes
Occupation : Writing guestbook entries
Location : In an attic in Nuremberg
E-mail : ktdykes@nexgo.de
Web address : http://home.nexgo.de/ktdykes/tress.htm
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : The Dinosauricon
Question/Comment : Hello Simon. I followed your advice and contacted the people at Dinosaur Isle. They tell me that, so far, there are no known Mesozoic mammal remains from the IoW. Maybe one day. PS: I'll call back soon. I believe I've found a web site which is even more...
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[According to an e-mail from Trevor, he meant to say " more fun than Dinosaurs and their Biscuits. DW] |
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Name : Lara Couldwell
Occupation : Palaeobiology student, UCL, London
Location : Kent
E-mail : larajlcouldwell@yahoo.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : By the author
Question/Comment : Brilliant!!! What a great idea! A very professinal looking web page, with up to date info, which is accessable to all abilities! Bet Barker and Martill are chuffed!
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[To be honest, they haven’t heard about it yet, but I shall tell them eventually! DW] |
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Name : Sarah Wood
Occupation : English student (so rarely occupied)
Location : Oxford University
Web address : I'm not as clever as Simon and have so far failed to produce a web site!
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : From the author!
Question/Comment : So nice to go to a website which is actually functional, interesting and easy to navigate, instead of having a lot of flashy looking graphics and not a lot else! I really love the pictures. I just wish this had been around when my family went to the Isle...
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Name : Nicholas Gardner
Location : USA
E-mail : n_gardner637@hotmail.com
Web address : http://geocities.com/n_gardner637/
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Dinosauricon Guest Book
Question/Comment : Eotyrannus wasn't close to dromaeosaurs like Velociraptor. It was a full tyrannosauroidean. Yes, It did have a full manus 3 but It was definitely not a relative of Velociraptor any more than Oviraptor is. Yes, they are close but not that close. Nice Si...
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[I have to admit that I’m not the worlds greatest mind when it comes to theropod dinosaurs, as my interests are more ornithopod in nature, but 99% of the information on DinoWight, including all the information on the Eotyrannus page, is from the excellent ‘Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight" by Dave Martill and Darren Naish, both of who wrote the paper describing the holotype and only known specimen. However, I shall check with Darren at the Department, see what he says, and get back to you. Until then, I shall remove the offending comment. DW] |
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Name : Jeannie Liddington
Occupation : Boffin
Location : Portsmouth
E-mail : eep90078@port.ac.uk
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : From the creators mouth
Question/Comment: Sorry got to go i have to eat my sandwiches. Ta Ta.
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Name : Trevor Dykes
Occupation : Writing in guestbooks
Location : Nuremberg
E-mail : ktdykes@nexgo.de
Web address : http://home.nexgo.de/ktdykes/meseucaz.htm
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : From a guestbook [silly question! DW]
Question/Comment (Max 30 words): How terrible. The velocoraptor guestbook don't work! Just found some summaries of Darwin's correspondance are on-line. 19,000 of them. On one page. Staggering. I've got three words left so to...
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[Ah, ran out of space! Never mind. And for those of you curious as to what raptor page Trevor was talking about, look here! DW] |
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Name : McKay
Occupation : who cares
Location : who cares
E-mail : mckayv.admagic@aros.net
Web address : www.geocities.com/jurassicparks_raptors/velocoraptor.html
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : you signed my guest book
Question/Comment: Hi im the person who made that web about velociraptor i thank you for that i will fix it right away your friend, Mckay age 11
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Name : Caroline
Occupation : lazy student
Location : in my sleeping bag
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : from adam
Question/Comment: this site is really, really good! it must've taken you ages. i am a little worried about the iow mafia, do they wear red headscarves?
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[No, they look like everybody else DW] |
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Name : Adam stuart smith
Occupation : student
Location : Portsmouth
E-mail : dinobiscuits@yahoo.co.uk
Web address : its new!!! (and v emptyat the mo): http://www.geocities.com/sea_saur
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : dinowight? whats that?
Question/Comment: i see the sauropod pages have arrived. well done Simon. (the images seem very similar though! compare _Chondrosteosaurus_ with _pleurocoelus_ it makes me laugh).
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[Ah! You noticed my cunning ploy! Well, as most of the sauropods on the Isle of Wight are either brachiosaurs, titanosaurs or camarasaurs, I only did three sauropod pictures, and did some a different colour (I did the same thing with the theropods, except for Neovenator, Baryonyx and Eotyrannus. This was not an error, just a time saving exercise. You can send in your own pictures if you want to though (see contributions) DW] |
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Name : Trevor Dykes
Occupation : Paleobook-keeping
Location : Nuremberg
E-mail : ktdykes@nexgo.de
Web address : http://home.nexgo.de/ktdykes/tress.htm
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : From a link on this amazing site about Dinozors o' Dorzet
Question/Comment: Update on Dorset Dinosauria. Total now eight, Metriacanthosaurus. Mesozoic Mammalia of the county presently 15, unless I've overlooked any.
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Name : Adam Stuart Smith
Occupation : Student
Location : Library
E-mail : dinobiscuits@yahoo.co.uk
Web address : www.geocities.com/Sea_saur
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : dinowhat? [Oh, very amusing!- DW]
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : How about a friendly link to my new site, i am happy to return the favour?! {if you enter a dinowight page from a search engine, the list on the left isn't there, Disaster? Adam
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[A link will appear when your site is a bit more complete and all the links work, so for now will the one above do? And as for the menu bar not appearing at the side when you access DinoWight from a search engine- I know, it is disastrous, but if people know what they are looking for, then they will find all that they need on the page that they access(Hopefully!) DW] |
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Name : Mark Davis
Occupation : Physiology and Biochemistry student/ John Lewis slave
Location : Wiltshire / Reading / Bristol
E-mail : sau99mjd@reading.ac.uk
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : From the author himself
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : What a website! Must have taken ages. I don't pretent to know anything aboout dinosours.... but could you do one on bacteria????
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[Much as I would love to do a website about Bacteria, I’m afraid that they are not only too numerous for me to research, but they are also incredibly uninteresting, so I would find it hard to care enough to finish the job. Why don’t you do one though, and make it part of your course work. You can even put it on your CV! DW] |
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Name : PalaeoWeb aka Grim Styles
Occupation : Occupationally Challenged Palaeobiology Graduate
Location : Lingfield, Surrey
E-mail : palaeoweb@yahoo.com
Web address : http://www.geocities.com/palaeoweb/index.html
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Geocities Memberpages
Question/Comment : Greetings to another Portsmouthologist (Me, I graduated last year..)Nice to see the Pompey Palaeo Crew making a concerted attack on the internet. Drop me a line on email and/or get Yahoo! Messenger (ID = palaeoweb). Mutual linking may be good when both ou...
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[One day Portsmouth Palaeontologists will rule the internet, one day!!! DW] |
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Name : Jimmy
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : On the directory of most rubbish dinosaur sites
Question/Comment : What a rubbish website.
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[Direct and to the point, if not a little vague. Still, everybody is entitled to his or her own opinion, even if it is WRONG! Never mind, nice to hear from the minority... DW] |
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Name : Richard
Question/Comment : Nice site! You could try getting one without those terrible pop up ads and banners. There are hundreds of free web hosts like geocities out there that don't force banners onto people's pages. IE. www.brinkster.com You really shouldn't spoil a goo...
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[I may consider it, unless I can get someone to pay for it and get me the address www.dinowight.com! DW] |
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Name : Trevor Dykes
Occupation : Nuremberg was occupied by the Americans
Location : Nuremberg
E-mail : ktdykes@nexco.de
Web address : http://home.nexgo.de/ktdykes/meseucaz.htm
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : I read about it in the Guardian [REALLY! DW]
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : I've just looked at Pedros's guestbook. My message is first. Second comes Mr Adam. Third yourself, Mr Simon. Between the three of us, did we say anything sensible?
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[Possibly not. Never mind, that’s what guest book generally are for! Still, he did write back and thank me for my comments, so there must have been something! DW] |
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Name : K.Waters
Occupation : Geologist
Location : Liverpool England
E-mail : Es0u80ee@liv.ac.uk
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Name : Mark
Occupation : Dino Hunter
Location : Australia and USA
E-mail : reddog@iinet.net.au
Web address : www.judithriver.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Google web search
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : thanks guys! Great resource for a visitor. Content and links great, I'm off down there tomorrow!
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Name : Pedro Andrade
Occupation : student
Location : Portugal
E-mail : pedroalexandr25@hotmail.com
Web address : http://www.geocities.com/dinosauria_pt/Home
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : The Dinosauricon
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : This page is very well done. I didn't knew the Isle of Wight before visiting this page, and now I know it's an isle full of fossiles. Keep the work.
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Name : Darren Naish
Occupation : palaeontologist
Location : University of Portsmouth
E-mail : darren.naish@port.ac.uk
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : My good pal Mr Martin Simpson, member of the IoW mafia
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : Nice to see most of the info from _Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight_ nicked - will be following up legal proceedings in due course. Loved the bit about IoW mafia - excellent. And IoW Wealden mammals are known, just not from much. Why nothing on IoW stegosau...
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[Hello Darren, wondered when you’d turn up! I sincerely hope that you are joking, as I don’t have a bean. As for the Stegosaur, well, to be honest, I can’t draw stegosaurs. I can get the body right, but it’s those plates, with all their complexity, that really foxes me. Anyway, if you have any real problem with me using the information from yours and Dave’s book, then E-mail me (dinowight@yahoo.co.uk), and I’ll sort it out. DW] |
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Name : Trevor Dykes
Occupation : non Paleontologist not from Portsmouth
Location : But I have been to Portsmouth
E-mail : ktdykes@arcor.de
Web address : http://home.nexgo.de/ktdykes/meseucaz.htm
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Hear about what?
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : There are some IoW LK [Lower Cretaceous, DW] mammal finds! Darren Naish told me. Teeth found twenty years ago. One's a multituberculate, Loxaulax, also known from Sussex and Wyoming. The others weren't identifiable.
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[Yes, Darren mentioned it in the message above yours. Strange Dinosaur Isle knew nothing about it when you contacted them though... DW] |
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Name : Fred Clouter
Occupation : Artist
Location : Sheppey, Kent
E-mail : Fclouter@sheppeyfossils.com
Web address : www.sheppeyfossils.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : found it by surfing
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : Great site, thanks?
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Name : Denver Fowler
Occupation : palaeo-type-guy
Location : USA (these days)
E-mail : df9465@hotmail.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : randomly trawling through google
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : Best site on IOW dinos yet encountered! Could do with some photos maybe. The IOW mafia? 'Can't say I've had any trouble. Neat logo though.
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[Photos will appear in due time, when I can get them, and the IoW mafia are generally a friendly lot, so I’m not surprised you’ve had no trouble. It’s just the occasional bad apple who ruins it for the rest. Glad you like the logo! DW] |
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Name : Charles Clark
Occupation : Student
Location : England
E-mail : Ennersdale@talk21.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : seach engine
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : I think you will find that the person was called Barry walker dicovered the claw NOT william walker. Because i met him and held the claw so i should know.
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[Barry walker? Oh, I see, as in Barryonyx Walkeri, very clever! Are you sure, as all of the literature calls him William, or Bill, plus the actual claw, held within the collections of the Natural History Museum, London, is stored in a large box with "do not touch" written all over it? (How do I know? I’ve seen it on one of my visits to the sub-basement (it’s actually in its own drawer, whereas all the other bits are labelled "Baryonyx ungual", or whatever, it’s labelled "The Claw"!) So, either you are mistaken, and held a copy, or the whole of palaeontological literature is wrong! DW] |
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Name : aaron abbott
Location : uk
E-mail : aaron@aaronabbott.co.uk
Web address : http://www.aaronabbott.co.uk
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : ??
Question/Comment (Max 30 words) : i'm coming to the iow in march. i'd love to go dino hunting. where is the best place to go. cheers, nice site.
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[As I may have mentioned in the Information section, the best place to go is Brighstone Bay, if you’re looking for dinosaurs, but don’t be too upset if you don’t find anything impressive. If you’re going by car, then you should be able to find your way with a decent map (look for Atherfield Holiday camp, on Military road), but if you have no car, I think it’s either the No 7 or 7a bus, which goes all around the Island, and it’s cheaper to get a day-rover ticket (about £7.00- see http://www.svoc.co.uk/ ). Watch out for the tides, though! DW] |
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Name : adam stuart smith
Occupation : student
Location : portsmouth
E-mail : adam_stuart_smith@hotmail.com
Web address : www.geocities.com/sea_saur and www.geocities.com/dinobiscuits
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : hear?
Question/Comment: this site has become huge! congratulations. In time will it expand further? (Palaeowight: the palaeontology of the isle of wight?)Those marine reptiles want a mention, can you here them weep? Or perhaps 'Brachiowight: the brachiopods of the isle of wight'
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[At the moment there are no plans for expansion, although eventually there will be some pterosaurs (PteroWight? Naah.) Maybe I could narrow it down, in honour of my most popular page, and devote it to Baryonyx, so then it would be "BaryWight- The Baryonyx of the Isle of Wight" (BaryWight- Barry White. Do you see? Oh, suit yourself…) DW] |
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Name : Claws
Occupation : student microbio
Location : lutonia [a bad town]
E-mail : 99000522@luton.ac.uk
Web address : erh
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : i found it!
Question/Comment: do you have a pic/drawing of aristosuchus, tibia?+ vert? thanks!
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[No. Have you looked in the book Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight by Martill and Naish (see information)? This should have it. DW] |
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Name : lewis richardson
Occupation : school child
Location : uk
E-mail : lewisrichardson10@msn.com
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Occupation : iow mafia p.r.o (Uh-oh! DW)
Location : blackgang chine
E-mail : martinsimpsoniow@hotmail.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : from my mate Darren Naish the palaeo-pirate of Pompey
Question/Comment: want a limk on forthcoming site?
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[Yes, go on, why not! By the way, no offence about the IoW Mafia thing, it’s only meant to show how much you all look out for each other. Oh, hang on, there’s more...DW] |
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Name : martin simpson
Occupation : profeshional riter
Location : in the front room
E-mail : martinsimpsoniow@hotmail.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : see previous
Question/Comment: excuse my efforts I only got the computer yesterday
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[I was about to say ("profeshional riter"?), but I see that you’ve got an excuse now. DW] |
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Name : Glen Goddard
Occupation : to be Paleontologist
Location : Saffron Walden (near Cambridge)
E-mail : Glengod@hotmail.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Paleo Ring
Question/Comment: Very good website. I'm going to the IOW in easter and will be hunting for Dinosaurs (and all the rest) so it this website was and is helpful.
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[Thank you. It’s always nice to hear from future palaeontologists, and to feel that all this hard work has been useful for someone! DW] |
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Name : Glen Goddard
Occupation : to be Paleontologist
Location : Saffron Walden (near Cambridge)
E-mail : Glengod@hotmail.com
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Paleo Ring
Question/Comment: Why have you not included Megalosaurus and Vectisaurus on your web page? I heard they've been found on the Island too.
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[Thankyou for your question, and the reason is that Vectisaurus is a synonym (i.e., a member of the same species that was given a different name by an over-zealous palaeontologist) for Iguanodon atherfieldensis, and Megalosaurus material on the Island is most likely Neovenator, as the range for Megalosaurus is Aalenian to Bajocian, in the mid Jurassic, whereas the Wealden is Barremian to Aptian, in the early Cretaceous. DW] |
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Name : Adam
Occupation : n/a
Location : porstmouth
E-mail : adam_stuart_smith@hotmail
Web address : See above
Question/Comment : That is one big _Oplosaurus_. Thanks for the plesiosaur pictures that you posted on your top secret page at www.geocities.com/dinowight/images.html
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[Yes, they are good, aren't they? So, the concept of secret doesn't ring any bells then? (By the way, there are several secret pages in DinoWight, can you find the rest?) DW] |
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Name : Matt Martyniuk
Occupation : Student
Location : New Jersey
E-mail : martyniukm2@scranton.edu
Web address : http://www.azhdarcho.com
Question/Comment: Fantastic site, a wonderful resource for this batch of dinosaurs. Keep up the good work!
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Name : Dave Brockhurst
Occupation : Plant Operator
Location : Bexhill -East Sussex
E-mail : brockhurstfamily@hotmail.com
Web address : www.geocities.com/davesfossils/photopagerock
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : on the web
Question/Comment: Good site many of the species on the Island are also found here in Bexhill. Most recent find was a Polacanthus
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[Well, the Wealden does go up that far, so I'm not surprised. I had heard about a mainland England Polacanthus, but only from a leaflet. I'll try and look it up though! DW] |
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Occupation : Unfortunately
Location : On a chair
E-mail : ktdykes@arcor.de
Web address : http://home.arcor.de/ktdykes/meseucaz.htm
Where did you hear about DinoWight? : Through divine intervention (I have friends in High Places! DW)
Question/Comment: According to a fossil guide, fragments of Polacanthus are supposed to have been found in Lyme Bay, Dorset. I'm not sure what exactly, and put this booklet down in a safe place. I wonder where?
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[Good Grief! Are these mainland Polacanthus breeding? As to your safely stored booklet, I know the feeling, as I've done something very similar with a paper which contains a very useful dinosaur tracking identification guide…DW] |
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