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Re: ARGGH - WHAT'S HAPPENING?
>TITANOSAUR SPINES
>
>The vineyard titanosaur apparently possesses spines. Are these atop the scutes?
>Was anything revealed about their pattern on the body, if any. If the
>morphology
>of the scutes proves the same as that in other armoured titanosaurs (and other
>sauropods, possibly), the possibility that all had such spines is raised. This
>is something, of course, suggested a good long while ago.
Darren -
This is new to me: what is the "vineyard" titanosaur, and could
you point me to a ref? Thanks!
Jerry D. Harris
Shuler Museum of Paleontology
Southern Methodist University
Box 750395
Dallas TX 75275-0395
(214) 768-2750
FAX: (214) 768-2701
jdharris@lust.isem.smu.edu
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quacks like a duck, then it is the sister taxon to,
but cannot parsimoniously be, the direct ancestor
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