RE: Guts-Eating Spinosaurs

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Jean-Michel Benoit (Jean-Michel.BENOIT@gemplus.com) wrote:

<On the same topic, I asked in an earlier post if there was any drawing
available of _S. aegyptiacus_ remains from Stromer's paper on line. Any
idea where I could find that?>

  Stromer never provided skeletal reconstructions or "fits" between
elements except for probable vertebrae or limb material. Only then when it
appeared to be the same element, broken. The first and pretty much only
skeletal reconstruction before 1997, was that of Lydekker, in 1954. I do
not have the exact ref handy. This showed material including all the verts
in arrangement according to Stromer, the dentary, the maxilla, and ribs.
Later, as part of Olshevsky's Dino Digest series, Tracy Ford rendered a
newer, more modern take with a slight re-arrangement of the vertebrae
emphasizing a back-only sail, compared to Lydekker's back--hips--tail
sail. The text and figures were on skullduggery.com some years ago, I
don't know if they're still there.

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

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