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{{quote|a tale of misguided secrecy and misplaced confidence, of rampant egos clashing, self-aggrandizement, wishful thinking, naïve assumptions, [[human error]], stubbornness, manipulation, backbiting, lying, corruption, and, most of all, abysmal communication.}}
It was eventually determined that ''Archaeoraptor'' had been constructed from parts of an [[Early Cretaceous]] bird ''[[Yanornis martini]]'' and a small dinosaur ''[[Microraptor zhaoianus]]''.<ref>[http://www.ifs.csic.es/sorites/Issue_20/colbourn.htm The Interpretive Mind] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100401195602/http://www.ifs.csic.es/sorites/Issue_20/colbourn.htm |date=1 April 2010}}</ref>
In order to increase their profit, fossil hunters and dealers occasionally sell slab and counter slab separately. A reptile fossil also found in Liaoning was described and named ''Sinohydrosaurus'' in 1999 by the [[Beijing Natural History Museum]]. In the same year the [[Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology]] in Beijing described and named ''Hyphalosaurus lingyuanensis'', unaware they were working with the counter slab of the same specimen. ''[[Hyphalosaurus]]'' is now the accepted name.<ref>[http://www.twoguysfossils.com/reptiles.htm Two Guys Fossils] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20120914100749/http://www.twoguysfossils.com/reptiles.htm |date=14 September 2012}}</ref>
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