Friday, October 16, 2009

My favorite e-mail request

My office door is my placard, my protest sign, my refrigerator-door-away-from-home. I try to be selective in choosing what is posted on my office door, because of the limited space, so I am especially fond of this brief item, which originated as a post to a paleontology listserve. It's so utterly delightful in its incomprehensibility, yet I know personally several folks who understand exactly what this person is asking:

To the amphibiophiles on this list,

Is anybody of you aware of published descriptions and/or figures of the epipterygoid bone in rhinesuchid, lydekkerinid or wetlugasaurid temnospondyls?

Any reference is highly appreciated.

Oh, my spellchecker did not like that request, at all!

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