Re: Meet Triceratops

[Paul P <turtlecroc@yahoo.com>]

> I see, people still follow the "push the bones so they touch"
> doctrine. get real.

Eh..? Not sure what you're trying to say. The articular 
surfaces of ceratopsian long bones were covered with 
cartilage that defined a more precise range of motion for 
the joint, i.e. than you would presume looking only at the 
fossilized bones. Skeletons shouldn't be (and never are, 
I hope) mounted with humerus and radius/ulna in contact. 


--- On Wed, 8/31/11, Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com> wrote:

> From: Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>
> Subject: Re: Meet Triceratops
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 2:28 PM
> 
> I see, people still follow the "push the bones so they touch"
> doctrine. get real.
> 
> Heinrich
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Paul P <turtlecroc@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >> Am I seeing idiotically everted elbows there?
> >
> > No... you are seeing properly everted elbows, if by
> everted
> > you mean a semi-sprawling gait. The rostral view (at
> the
> > top of the page) looks quite good anatomically.
> Semi-erect
> > forelimbs just as they should be. Now as for the
> apparently
> > keratinous face, that is another matter.
> >
> >    Paul P.
> >
> > --- On Tue, 8/30/11, Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Heinrich Mallison <heinrich.mallison@googlemail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: Meet Triceratops
> >> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> >> Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011, 8:58 PM
> >>
> >> Am I seeing idiotically everted elbows there?
> >>
> >> Sheesh, folks, this is TV, so it was run by
> scientists
> >> BEFORE all the
> >> important decisions were made, so it sucks.
> >>
> >> any question?
> >>
> >>
> >> turn on your brains, read the papers. There's your
> answer.
> >>
> >> (stomps off in frustration)
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:44 AM,  <Danvarner@aol.com>
> wrote:
> >> > Go to Pete Von Sholly's blog  (at your
> peril!) and
> >> scroll down to a frame
> >> > of Dave Krentz's Triceratops from
>  "Dinosa
day. Incredible. Click to enlarge. V  V
> >> >
> >> > http://vonshollywood.blogspot.com/
> >> >
> >> >
> >>
> >
>