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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Times New Roman">I will reiterate the
appreciation to Dave & Bob for setting the stage for one of the most
extraordinary conferences in memory with an array of new language focused
subjects heard for the first time. Appreciation also to each of the
presenters and those who were in attendance as well.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=4 face="Times New Roman">It definitely called for
the celebration of the leaping lizards of Kansas, as addressed in the Wichita
Newspaper below.</FONT> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=carudin1@WSC.EDU href="mailto:carudin1@WSC.EDU">Catherine Rudin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu
href="mailto:SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu">SIOUAN@listserv.unl.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 20, 2012 9:23
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Creepie-crawlie-xti
redux</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>This is great! <BR>And yes, it was a wonderful
conference. Many thanks to Bob and especially Dave for organizing and to
everyone else for taking part.<BR>Catherine<BR><BR>>>> "Rankin,
Robert L." <RANKIN@KU.EDU>06/19/12 8:56 PM >>><BR>
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is the Wichita newspaper account of the naming of the sea-going dinosaur at
the Sternberg Museum that I mentioned in connection with Mark's fine paper on
Omaha bug/lizard names. The reporter got things a little mixed up, but
the article is pretty accurate. I had made several suggestions for
names, and my recollection was that they picked "walushka hi-tanga"
'big-toothed lizard'. What they chose is slightly different, but the
essence remains. Anyhow, here is the biggest Wagthishka of all -- 45
feet.<BR><BR>I hope everybody enjoyed the conference -- I think it was the
biggest ever.<BR><BR>Bob<BR>==============================<BR><!--[if !mso]>
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<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">It has finally
happened.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Derby</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> paleontologist Mike Everhart's 10-year
quest to name a mosasaur fossil for </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> has succeeded.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Tylosaurus
kansasensis </SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">will
become the official Latin name of a giant sea lizard this spring when the name
is published in the Netherlands Journal of Geosciences.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Unofficially,
this type of mosasaur -- a 25-foot-long sea lizard that lived in the ocean
more than 65 million years ago -- will be known as "je-Walushka-tanga"
(pronounced jay wah-LOOSH-gah DUNG-gah"), meaning "great ocean lizard" in the
language of the Kaw or Kanza tribe.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">"It's nice to
name a mosasaur after Kansas -- after all, Kansas is where most of the
mosasaurs have been found," said Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate
paleontology at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">"If you were
going to pick a fossil that would typify </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, a mosasaur is a good
choice."</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Everhart, who
serves as the adjunct curator of paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of
Natural History in Hays, said he wanted the name of the fossil to reflect
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">'s heritage.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">"The Indian name
just makes the fossil a little more special," Everhart said. "There are
hundreds of different kinds of fossils sitting in boxes in all kinds of
places. Few of them have a life of their own. The T. rex Sue at the
</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Field</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Museum</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> (in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Chicago</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">) is one that does. I want this one to
also come alive in people's imagination."</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">This isn't the
first fossil to be named "kansasensis," Everhart said.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">At least 20 other
fossils bear that name, including several clams, a mouse and some
trilobites.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The new name also
touts the state's fossil heritage and how these rolling farm plains were once
at the bottom of a 600-foot-deep ocean.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Since the late
1860s, the Smoky Hill chalk beds of western </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> have been known throughout the world
for containing fossils dating to the Cretaceous period, nearly 87 million
years ago.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The mosasaurs,
some species of which could grow as long as 45 feet, were among the most
terrifying animals of their time.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">"They ruled the
oceans at the end of the age of the dinosaur," Everhart said. "They were a big
predator."</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">They were
monsters that ate everything in their way, swallowing prey whole.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">"In </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, there were more than a dozen types of
mosasaurs," Everhart said. "Worldwide, the number is more than 40."</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">This particular
species of mosasaur has been found only in </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, he said, and has been unnamed for
nearly 140 years. There are 13 known specimens of this type of mosasaur --
nine of which are in the </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Sternberg</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Museum</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">'s collection in Hays.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Anyone can name
an unnamed fossil, Everhart said. But a name gains credibility only when it is
published in a recognized journal.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">In his paper,
Everhart wrote that the fossil is named after the Kanza Indians, "from which
the name of the state... is derived and where all of the known specimens have
been collected."</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The Kanza people
originally lived in the </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Ohio River</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> valley. By the early 1800s, they had
moved to what is now the </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, or Kaw, River valley to claim a
territory that covered roughly two-fifths of modern-day </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Kansas</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">In 1873, the
tribe was forced to move to </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Indian Territory</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, in present-day </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Oklahoma</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Justin McBride,
language coordinator for the Kanza Language Project with the Kaw Nation of
Oklahoma, said the naming is an honor.</SPAN></P>
<P style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"
class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">"The Kaw language
is no longer spoken fluently," he said. "It is easy for mainstream Americans
to think that native languages were of lesser importance. But they are every
bit as rich as other languages in the world. I think Mike Everhart's wish of
going back to the source, going back to 'kansasensis' is a very positive
move."</SPAN></P>
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Tanner at 268-6336 or <A
href="mailto:btanner@wichitaeagle.com">btanner@wichitaeagle.com</A>.</SPAN></I></P>
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