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Pleurocoelus getting bitten by Acrocanthosaurus by Greg Paul
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Fix is in for misnamed Texas dinosaur: SAN ANTONIO AP — Pleurocoelus has served ably as the official dinosaur of Texas.
Archive 2009-01-25 Bill Crider 2009
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Pleurocoelus getting bitten by Acrocanthosaurus by Greg Paul
Archive 2009-09-01 Nima 2009
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“Pleurocoelus” valdensis Lydekker, 1889 (Saurischia, Sauropoda) en el Cretácico Inferior (Barremiense) de la Península Ibérica.
Archive 2006-02-01 Darren Naish 2006
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There are also large, long-necked plant-eating dinosaurs such as Pleurocoelus and Paluxysaurus, who may have been easy prey.
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Pleurocoelus and paluxysaurus were both giraffe-necked and enormous four-footed herbivores, with a close resemblance to the more widely known brachiosaurus.
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Peter Rose is the scientist behind the name change: His master's level study of dinosaur bones at SMU eventually led him to dispute the long-accepted notion that the large, sauropod bones found in and around the Paluxy River near Glen Rose, Texas, were the same as Pleurocoelus bones first found in Maryland in the late 1800s.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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State Rep. Charles Geren of Fort Worth filed a resolution Jan. 7 to change the name of the state dinosaur from Pleurocoelus to Paluxysaurus jonesi to correctly name the massive sauropod whose tracks and bones litter the central Texas Jones Ranch.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009
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SAN ANTONIO - Pleurocoelus has served ably as the official dinosaur of Texas.
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The discovery in 2007 led a Fort Worth lawmaker to file a resolution in the Legislature this month that seeks to send Pleurocoelus packing and transfer the state dinosaur title to a very similar but more uniquely Texas species, newly dubbed Paluxysaurus jonesi.
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