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Re: AMNH Apatosaurus mount

At 09:39 PM 5/13/2003, you wrote: 
In a message dated 5/13/03 5:41:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
taradosgon@yahoo.com writes:

<< *This animal does indeed represent a new species. >>

I recall the skeleton is very composite. I don't recall whether a list of the
specimens that went into the mount has ever been published. Perhaps someone on the list can enlighten us?

According to "Discovering Dinosaurs in the American Museum of Natural History" (Norell, Gaffney, and Dingus; 1995), it was made of:

2/3 was AMNH 460 (chest, neck, verts, ribs, pelvis, left femur, other limb bones)
AMNH 222 (right femur, tibia, scapula)
AMNH 339 (tail verts)
AMNH 592 (foot bones)
the rest was "modeled in plaster from an Apatosaurus in the Peabody Museum at Yale University" (pg. 103)

The new remount added four neck verts and 7 meters of tail (no source given) and the Carnegie's skull.


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