RE: Triceratops maximus and stuff

["Andrew A. Farke" <andyfarke@hotmail.com>]

Sounds great--I'm really looking forward to hearing the results!!! Thanks
for taking this task on (I myself would join in the quest if I weren't
firmly planted in Stony Brook for the next month. . .).

Andy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu] On Behalf Of
> Cliff Green
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 10:10 PM
> To: dinosaur mailing list
> Subject: Re: Triceratops maximus and stuff
> 
> 
> Dear Andy and List,
> 
>     At the risk of sounding like a drunken scotch fisherman in from the
> loch, I have personally seen the beastly, and this skull is real, and
> really
> large. about ten years ago, the folks behind the Horned dinosaur Traveling
> Exhibition were interested in obtaining a cast of it. I can't remember the
> reason, but Ken Stadtman, The BYU Earth Science Dig site and Bone Lab
> chief,
> said that the deal fell through.
>     The original has been re-jacked because it is so fragile. The brow and
> nose horns had long since wethered away before it was ever collected. The
> frill is mostly intact.
>     I am going to make a personal mission this week, measure and take a
> picture of the poorly reconstructed cast. The zoobies (byu students) that
> cast it, did a fairly bad job of reconstructing the missing skeletal
> elements.
>     I will return and report.
> 
> On a crusade Cliff
> 
> My real suspicion about this specimen is that it is one of
> > those "fish stories," in which the specimen becomes bigger with every
> > telling. Sorta like all of those T. rex specimens, which seem to shrink
> by
> > an amazing amount once someone actually measures the things.
> >
> > Just my thoughts on this.
> >
> > Andy
> >
>