polacanthus

[rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)]

Two points of interest relating to polacanthids:  

First off, Darren Naish wrote:

> 1) Resurrection of the Polacanthidae is nothing to do with Ken
> Carpenter, but the work of Jim Kirkland (of course)

I don't know if Jim Kirkland is really trying to bring Polacanthids
back to life, but Ken seems to think he's involved in the project...
I forwarded one of the messages to him when the subject first came up,
and he responded:

: regarding the Morrison ankylosaurs (your last forward to me), the
: material to date includes the holotype material described by
: Kirkland and I, a few additional parts to the holotype (armor
: mostly), the nuchal portion of a skull from Como Bluff (to be named
: by Bakker - in Hunteria of course!), a scapula-coracoid from Dry
: Mesa, a tibia from Garden Park, and a partial, articulated skeleton
: in very hard sandstone (mostly preserved as impression).  All of
: this material, except for the skull, will be in a paper by Kirkland,
: Carpenter and Hunt, in the Morrison Symposium volume.

Second thing: For those of you that would like to see Neil Clark's
drawing but couldn't make use of the options I gave you before, I have
a new one.  I've imported the image into Microsoft Word and saved it
as a Rich Text Format (RTF) file.  RTF files can travel through
regular e-mail, so you don't need any software to uudecode the file at
your end.  If you have Microsoft Word (or anything else that will read
RTF files), you should be able to view the image.  The only hurdle
you'll still have to get over is that listproc broke the file into two
pieces, and you'll have to stitch the two pieces together.  This is
the way that you'd most likely go about it.  First retrieve the two
pieces by sending e-mail to listproc@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu.  The
body of your message should contain only:

get dinosaur polesex.rtf

In response, listproc will send you two messages, each containing part
of the file.  Save the two messages into the same file, and then open
that file with a text editor or word processor.  Delete all of the
mail header information from both messages (there will be lines
specifying "Cut here" at the beginning and end of both messages --
delete everything before the first "Cut here", everything between the
second and third, and then anything after the fourth.  Make sure you
cut out the "Cut here" lines as well!).  If you're using a text
editor, save the edited file as is.  If you're using a word processor
(e.g. Microsoft Word) save that file as "Text Only".  From your word
processor, you should then be able to Open the new file and it will be
converted into an image for you.  I haven't looked at it on any black
and white monitors, but I have looked at it in color on both a
macintosh (Word version 5.1) and a PC (Word for Windoze v. 6).  As
long as you have the RTF text import filter installed, you should be
able to view the image on either type of platform.  Again, if you like
the image, make sure to thank Neil Clark (NCLARK@MUSEUM.GLA.AC.UK).
And if you're offended by animals getting to know each other in the
Biblical sense, DON'T follow the above instructions :-)

-- 
Mickey Rowe     (rowe@lepomis.psych.upenn.edu)