RE: arrangement of stegosaur plates

["King, Norm" <nking.ucs@smtp.usi.edu>]

My understanding is that the plates of the complete stegosaur unearthed 
at Garden Park, Colorado a few years ago by the Denver Museum of Natural 
History group, led by Ken Carpenter, were found in positions strongly 
suggesting that they were arrayed in two rows with staggered spacing, 
just like the classical image.  I believe that is how they have 
reconstructed it for the display in the Museum.  The underside of the 
neck was indeed covered with 100's of roughly coin-sized ossicles.  The 
tail spikes were buried in a way suggesting they were pointed more to the 
side than vertically.  Perhaps Ken, if he is listening, can provide a 
more reliable report.



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Norman R. King                                       tel:  (812) 464-1794
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