Re: rearing sauropods/ Ceratopsian neck frills

["Patricia Kane-Vanni" <pkv1@erols.com>]

Mary,
    In response to your query regarding alternate functions for ceratopsian
neck frills, back in Mexico City for SVP 2000, John Anton presented an
intriguing paper on ceratopsian neck frills and their use as an auditory
enhancement.  I don't know whether there was further work done but you can
check out the abstract in that SVP Bulletin.
    Patti

Patricia Kane-Vanni, Esq.
pkv1@erols.com  or  pkvanni@sas.upenn.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: <MKIRKALDY@aol.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: rearing sauropods


> In a message dated 1/2/2002 9:29:50 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> dinoland@lycos.com writes:
>
> < clown, or zookeeper.  I don't know of any fossilized Jurassic clowns, so
> the big question is whether sauropods regularly used rearing as an
integral
> part of their survival.  I doubt this will easily-if ever-be known.>
>
> Perhaps ceratopsian neck frills should be examined for a different
function?
> :-)
>
> Mary
>