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Re: Long Bone Scaling in Neosauropod Dinosaurs

To: DML <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: Long Bone Scaling in Neosauropod Dinosaurs
From: David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:00:44 +0200
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So what about those titanosaurs which possessed armor?

Is it armor by primary function? Or is it an exoskeleton, replacing the hyposphene & hypantrum with something more flexible that nevertheless carries the weight of the animal? (That's an important function in crocodiles, and it was considered newsworthy that the terrestrial *Pristichampsus* is more heavily armored than the usual semiaquatic crocs.)

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- re: Long Bone Scaling in Neosauropod Dinosaurs
  - From: Guy Leahy <xrciseguy@sbcglobal.net>

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