Re: Note to Plesiosaur Artists

["Ken Carpenter" <KCarpenter@dmns.org>]

so, what is this error you are hinting at?

Kenneth Carpenter, Ph.D.
Curator of Lower Vertebrate Paleontology &
Chief Preparator
Dept. of Earth Sciences
Denver Museum of Natural History 
2001 Colorado Blvd.
Denver, CO 80205

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>>> <Danvarner@aol.com> 17/Nov/03 >>>
I've seen several recent restorations of the short-necked plesiosaur, 
Dolichorhynchops, that are showing the same error. I suspect the reason is that 
folks 
are using the Sternberg Museum specimen assembled and studied by Orville 
Bonner as is. The skull is dorsoventrally crushed and adjustments should be 
made 
or you'll end up with a Tex Avery polycotylid. DV