Machairasaurus whole refers to the sabre-like claws of the hand. The holotype, IVPP V15979, was found in layers of the Bayan Mandahu dating from the late Campanian. It mainly consists of a left frontlimb, including the lower end of the lower arm, two carpal bones and a complete hand. Also some fragmentary foot elements were present. The other find is the paratype, IVPP V15980, consisting of a very fragmentary skeleton including tail vertebrae, chevrons, ribs, phalanges of the hands, fragments of the second and fourth metatarsals and pedal phalanges. Five oviraptorid specimens associated with a nest, the female having been found
The Valley of Bones The Valley of Bones The Valley of Bones is the seventh novel in Anthony Powell's twelve-volume series "A Dance to the Music of Time". Published in 1964, it is the first of the war trilogy. Early in 1940 Nick Jenkins joins his regiment in Wales as a second lieutenant. The reader is introduced to his commanding officer, the officious Captain Gwatkin, and the alcoholic Lieutenant Bithel. The battalion is moved to Northern Ireland where Gwatkin disastrously muddles instructions during an exercise and there is a snap inspection by General Liddament. En route to a training course at Aldershot Nick makes