Re: Dinosaur Songs, Part II

[Skip Dahlgren <SDAHLGREN@liblan.uams.edu>]

On Mon, 22 May 1995 13:53:57, Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov> 
replied:

> >The Kenner series of Jurassic Park dino models included a couple of 
Triassic
> >species - Coelophysis and Dilophodon.  (egad - Dilophodon WAS Triassic,
> >wasn't it?)  There were two versions of Dilophodon released.  One contains 
a
> >water reservoir, so it can "spit," and the other has a (fortunately)
> >detachable neck frill.
> 
> Dilophosaurus was actually Early Jurassic.  (And, good thing about the
> detachable frill.  Unfortunately, if it is really based on of the JP
> Dilophosaurus, the whole head is wrong.  Despite many interesting features
> of the skulls of coelophysoids and dromaeosaurids, the artists behind
> Jurassic Park just "morphed" the skull of Tyrannosaurus (with the typical
> tyrannosaurid downward, scalpel-like curve of the maxilla) for the smaller
> theropods.)
> 

Thanks for the info on Dilophosaurus.  I couldn't remember which side of the 
Triassic/Jurassic boundary they came from, although as soon as I included 
them in the message, I had a suspicion that it was wrong.

Yes, I'm afraid that the head of one of the dilophosaur models is pretty much 
a T rex morph.  However, the "Little Squirt" dilophosaur seems to have a more 
authentic head, and the coelophysis models (a pair came in the package) have 
very long, slender heads, which seems to fit the reconstructions that I've 
seen.


Skip Dahlgren
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