(joke)Maybe the type specimen was found with the head burried and the postcranial skeleton exposed, hence the name ;)
Cheers Jean-Michel Le 13/03/2011 19:16, Dino Guy a écrit :
How about inappropriate dinosaur names? I submit, for example, _Struthiosaurus_, "ostrich lizard." Does this nodosaur really resemble an ostrich? Really? Dino Guy Ralph Member of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology dinoguy@sbcglobal.net