Re: carnosaurs

["BJ Strata" <bjstrata@hotmail.com>]

As I am sitting here at the CEU Museum as I write, I felt I could offer some 
comments.

Luc J. "Aspidel" Bailly wrote:

> The tail of _Allosaurus_ goes too down IMHO.

I agree.  This and other changes to the main display are currently being 
considered (unofficially, for years now)...someday when there's money, the 
_Allosaurus_, _Camptosaurus_, _Camarasaurus_, and _Stegosaurus_ will be 
remounted in "updated" positions.

> I hope they'll present a photo of _Nedcolbertia_ skel >one of these days.

I hope we'll find a skeleton one of these days to photo!  _Nedcolbertia_ is 
known only from some limb elements and worn vertebrae.  There are good 
photos of what is known in the literature (see Kirkland et al, 1998, A small 
coelurosaurian theropod from the Yellow Cat Member of the Cedar Mtn Fm... in 
Lucas, Kirkland & Estep, eds, Lower and Middle Cret. Terrerstrial 
Ecosystems, New Mexico Museum of Nat. Hist. and Sci., Bull. 14, pp. 239-249; 
and Kikland et al, 1997, Lower to Middle Cret. dinosaur faunas of the 
central Colorado Plateau... in BYU Geology Studies, 42, part II, about page 
70 or so; also see Glut's Dinosaurs the Encyclopedia: Supp. I, pp. 267-270.)

David Marjanovic wrote:

> BTW, the right forearm of >http://www.ceu.edu/museum/images/raptor1.jpg 
> >respectively >http://www.ceu.edu/museum/images/raptor2.jpg shows 
> >beautifully that Utahraptor was unable to rotate its >forearms. Look at 
> the radius -- it is completely >disarticulated, isn't it?

Another soon (yeah right?!?!) to be fixed detail...hopefully a new 
reconstruction will be made soon (with all the new stuff being described; 
see Britt et al.'s SVP 2001 abstract - can't recall it off the top of my 
head).  Believe me, the "dislocated arm" is one of many details that Don 
Burge continues to hear about from me! (Thanks mostly to what I've learned 
from the list here!)

> But they got the shoulder girdle right (the coracoids >touch).
Thank you...see, we're getting there!

Bronson J. Barton
aka BJ Strata (Sorry for any confusion the use of the pseudonym may have 
caused; as to why...it's a long story that is not worth telling!  But if 
anyone is interested...)

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