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Spinosaurus at Dinopress.
Yes agreed, but I was referring mostly to the technical comparative drawings
of the fossils themselves. It is good to have all of them together and the
article provides it.
Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 7/23/01 6:20:48 PM EST, luisrey@ndirect.co.uk writes:
>
> << Again right to the point. If anyone wants to really know how BAD is the
> JP3 Spinosaurus reconstruction, just have a look at the new Berislav Krzic
> Dinopress article on Spinosaurus and its graphic comparison between those
> incredibly narrow and delicate spinosaurid snouts. Excellent source. >>
>
> There's a slight problem with the Spinosaurus spines in that article:
> Berislav forgot to give them their widened bases in his skeletal
> reconstruction. The neural spines widen above the centra a bit as you go
> toward the tip, then constrict, then widen again more slowly before finally
> narrowing as they come to the tip. I suspect that the point of constriction
> is the "Plimsoll line" of the animal's back.
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