Re: Big Momma dimensions

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

"Dino Guy Ralph" <ralph.miller@alumni.usc.edu> writes:


<<<Could someone please provide me with dimensions for the "Big Mama"
specimen, the famous brooding oviraptorid referred to _Citipati_?  I am 
looking for the overall length and width of the slab as a whole, 
including the plaster jacket, not necessarily the size of individual 
elements (although I could attempt to work things out from there).>>>


I'm not sure which specimen you are referring to, but I suspect it is
specimen IGM 100/979 (Norell et al., 1995, Nature).  In the photo of the
specimen (p. 775), there is a 10 cm scale bar.  The greatest breadth of
the plastered specimen is about 84 cm (+/- a cm or so).  The greatest
top-to-bottom dimension is about 78 cm (+/- a cm or so).  These
dimensions include the plaster jacket.

<pb>
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