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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu
[mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Danvarner@aol.com
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001
12:46 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Re: Blood pressure in
Sauropoda
In a
message dated 12/31/01 12:11:16 PM Pacific Standard Time, dino.hunter@home.com
writes:
<< I wanted to check and see if they were right. I used
Gilmoreâs Apatosaurus monograph and drew each individual cervical and lined it
up with the next, and guess what, the front of the neck turns DOWN!!! So they
are right. >>
It's interesting to note that the AMNH
Apatosaurus was originally mounted with the downturned cervicals and they have
been subsequently realigned upward in the recent renovation. See Dingus' _Next
of Kin_. DV
Yea, and
when you look at the new mounted neck, you see major gaps between the vertebrae
or overhanging post-, pre-, zygapohysis! Heres something you all can do next
time your at a museum, see how many vertebrate are misplaced in the mount or
even the ribs. Thereâs lots of things you can see on mounted specimensâpathologiesâ
Tracy L. Ford
P. O. Box 1171
Poway CaÂ
92074