Re: Battat stego / road kill / veggisaurus bites

[NEIL CLARK <NCLARK@museum.gla.ac.uk>]

Mike wrote:-

> The famous Velociraptor and Protoceratops found in a deadly 
embrace,
> with P's jaws clamped around V's forearm and V's clawed foot 
where P's
> belly would have been, supports this.  V didn't stick its arm into P's
> mouth on purpose -- P must have intentionally caught V's arm, 
implying
> it could have been a `standard' defense behaviour.
> 
I also understand that the _Protoceratops_ in this 'embrace' has been 
interpreted as a male.  Any comments?  I have a friend model-maker 
who is producing a reconstruction of this pose and was asked this 
question.  He later found out from some dinophile that it was a male 
due to the bump on the snout.

Neil