RE: arrangement of stegosaur plates

[Jeff Poling <jpoling@infinet.com>]

At 02:21 PM 1/10/96 -0500, King, Norm wrote:
>
>My understanding is that the plates of the complete stegosaur unearthed 
>at Garden Park, Colorado a few years ago by the Denver Museum of Natural 
>History group, led by Ken Carpenter, were found in positions strongly 
>suggesting that they were arrayed in two rows with staggered spacing, 
>just like the classical image.  I believe that is how they have 
>reconstructed it for the display in the Museum.  The underside of the 
>neck was indeed covered with 100's of roughly coin-sized ossicles.  The 
>tail spikes were buried in a way suggesting they were pointed more to the 
>side than vertically.  Perhaps Ken, if he is listening, can provide a 
>more reliable report.

   Isn't this the "road kill" specimen?  Couldn't the horizontal spike
placement be due to the carcass being flattened?

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