Comment by saghm
10 hours ago
FWIW "American" might be more continental than national; my recollection is that one of the places where tons of dinosaur bones were found in the early paleontology days is Alberta.
10 hours ago
FWIW "American" might be more continental than national; my recollection is that one of the places where tons of dinosaur bones were found in the early paleontology days is Alberta.
I think that’s what most tripped me up. “North American” would’ve been clearer here.
Nah, this is a Yankee/American issue. Citizens of the US claiming a noun that belongs to the continent.
I honestly had the opposite misreading; I thought it was intentionally trying to say it also had been found in South America, but from some googling I can't find any reference to that. Wikipedia seems to have already been updated to "North America and Europe"
North and South American dinosaurs were very different.
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