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Re: carnosaurs



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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