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it so difficult to get one's own text in black when the answering to dark blue? I don’t know. Now my reply is red! nd providing the ventral bracing of a beam.<< The
italics change into Times New Roman? Cool. Whats the paper? As HP
Stephan Pickering just wrote: Andreas
Christian & Wolf-Dieter Heinrich wolf-dieter.heinrich@rz.hu-berlin.de:
The neck posture of Brachiosaurus
brancai, Mitteilungen aus dem Museum für Naturkunde zu
Berlin, Geowissenschaftenliche Reihe 1, 73 -- 80 (19
November 1998). The
other, that argues for horizontal necks, is John
Martin, Valérie Martin-Rolland & Eberhard Frey: Not cranes or
masts, but beams: The biomechanics of sauropod necks, Oryctos 1,
113 -- 120, October 1998 Ok, I have both. I've
got both via swapping -- especially Mitt. Mus. Natkd. Berl., Geowiss. Reihe is
difficult to get, and I can't probably get Oryctos either. Sure you can. You can go to my web site, go to Dinosaur links, scroll
down to Publications and then to Oryctos or go to Jerry Harris’s site. Both
have links to Oryctos where you can order it. The following three hypothetical neck postures
were analysed: In the first model, the neck was assumed to be fully stretched
out in a horizontal plane with the head pointing forward (in the following
refer[r]ed to as "horizontal neck posture"). In the second model, the
neck was positioned as in the reconstruction by Janensch (1950b) with the
middle fraction of the neck forming an angle of about 30° with the vertical
("mounted neck posture" [...]). In the third model, the same shape of
the most cranial three quarters of the neck was used as in the reconstruction
by Janensch (1950b) but the neck was rotated around its base [along with, in
the figure, the first 3 dorsal vertebrae] so that the straight middle part of
the neck is fully vertical ("vertical neck posture" [...])." All of this is well and good, but we need to have the last cervicals and
first dorsals to be sure, which we don’t. I'll
write later about the results, the post is really long enough, and I must go to
bed. See... read you next year :-) Tracy L. Ford P. O. Box 1171 Poway Ca 92074 |