RE: more on thagomizers

["Dan Lipkowitz" <lipkowit@midway.uchicago.edu>]

In message Tue, 2 May 1995 16:59:28 -0400,
  Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov>  writes:

> I have been told that Dan Chure actually labeled a set of stegosaur tail
> spikes as a thagomizer
> in a display at Dinosaur National Monument.

I can confirm this (actually, I think it was only one spike, but the point's
the same -- ugh, sorry). I was at DNM this past summer, and when I saw that
display, I completely cracked up. Took awhile to explain to the people
staring nervously at me exactly what it was I had found so funny...

Dan Lipkowitz
lipkowit@midway.uchicago.edu