Re: [dinosaur] Ultrasaurus in Reader's Digest

And there is the Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature, which would cover
1979 and 1980.  In the US at least, many bigger libraries would have
this. It also online through EBSCO, but you may need to go through a
library to access it.

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On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 9:24 AM Ben Creisler <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Ben Creisler
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> News stories about the "Ultrasaurus" find came out in 1979 around July.
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> New York Times July 31, 1979, Section A, Page 1
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> Paleontologist in Colorado Finds Evidence of the Biggest Dinosaur ...
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> A Utah paleontologist, digging in an ancient dry river bed on a windswept
> Colorado mesa, has found bones of the biggest dinosaur that has yet been
> discovered — a huge animal that, he estimates, would have been able to look
> into a top‐floor window of a five‐ or six. story building.
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> People Magazine October 22, 1979
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> 'Dinosaur Jim' Jensen Finds a Shoulder Bone That Was Connected to a Set of
> Bones 50 Feet Tall
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> I browsed the Reader's Digest contents posted as cover images online and
> don't see anything that obviously matches in the July through December 1979
> issues and early 1980 issues.
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> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 4:55 AM Mike Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> I was about eleven years old, so the year would have 1979 or so. I was
>> in the waiting room at an optician, to be tested for my first pair of
>> glasss. As I waited, I browsed a Reader's Digest and it was there that
>> I first read about Ultrasaurus, the greatest of all the dinosaurs!
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>> ... At least, that's how I remember it. But I know memories can be
>> deceptive, and after all it WAS forty years ago.
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>> The thing is, I can't find that Reader's Digest. I have the much
>> earlier 1973 article in RD, by Jean George, about Supersaurus, and
>> it's POSSIBLE that the optician had a six-year-old Reader's Digest in
>> a waiting room and that's what I read, and that my mind is filling in
>> missing pieces. But I don't think so: I'm pretty sure it was
>> Ultrasaurus I was reading about.
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>> As some of you will know, I am part way through a project to
>> reconstruct the history of Jensen's big three Dry Mesa sauropods: a
>> timeline summarising what I've found so far can be found at
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>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svpow.com_2019_07_17_supersaurus-2Dtimeline_&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=rRlOPi0W0w9TDLHsSzNvlZPLsHq8YXMJAFsGJsekG1M&s=D90RQKD9flvl5s6BMQBrR2hF0-37AZupJSebv0zbV1I&e=
>> and this is part of
>> a larger project re-evaluating Supersaurus, indexed at
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>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__svpow.com_supersaurus-2Dand-2Dco-2Din-2D2019_&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=rRlOPi0W0w9TDLHsSzNvlZPLsHq8YXMJAFsGJsekG1M&s=AWcAf-EFoJRI7tZFcIP5u-cJoaEcpUshKugpzextVso&e=
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>> As part of that project — and also for sheer nostalgia — I would LOVE
>> to recover a copy of that 1979-or-thereabouts Reader's Digest article
>> about Ultrasaurus. (It can't have been from before 1979, as that's
>> when the not-really-type scapulocoracoid was found and the name
>> coined.) But RD's own search facilities are pretty wretched:
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>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.rd.com_tmbi-5Ffirst-5Fassociated_magazine_&d=DwIFaQ&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=Ry_mO4IFaUmGof_Yl9MyZgecRCKHn5g4z1CYJgFW9SI&m=rRlOPi0W0w9TDLHsSzNvlZPLsHq8YXMJAFsGJsekG1M&s=7oS6aPEZKPHwf8pnnkdhShAe0RUG6Ktsy9PcL0ZKGQk&e=
>> and can't find
>> anything. Certainly a search for "ultrasaurus" or even "supersaurus"
>> finds nothing.
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>> Can anyone help? I have no idea how, really, but if there's any
>> community that can come up with something, it's this one.
>>
>> -- Mike.
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