Fwd: RE: Late Cretaceous Giant Ceratopsians and Hadrosaurs

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

--- "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:47:08 -0800 (PST)
> From: "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: Late Cretaceous Giant Ceratopsians and Hadrosaurs
> To: uwrk2@yahoo.com
> 
> Tim Donovan (uwrk2@yahoo.com) wrote:
> 
> <We can assume they had heads but not armor.>
> 
>   Why not? Used to be in the day, all titanosaurs were assumed to bear
> armor, and such an assumption has been verified when loose armor from
> France and India have been referred to titanosaurids despite lack of
> association; later analysis showed this armor was more consistent with
> titanosaurs than with ankylosaurs morphologically, yet the assumption
> has
> held. Absence of known armor does not show that the titanosaurid
> *Isisaurus* lacked it naturally, even if nearly all other Indian
> titanosaurs bore them. Very little armor is known for Malagasy
> titanosaurids, but enough to indicate they possessed such. The initial
> assumption favors they had armor, rather than lacked it.
> 
> =====
> 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.
> 
> "Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)
> 
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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.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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