Re: new boook on functional morphology

[GROSS CORY WALTER <GROS4891@ADC.MTROYAL.AB.CA>]

Date sent:      Tue, 23 Jan 1996 14:22:27 -0500
From:           Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>
Subject:        Re: new boook on functional morphology
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>     Is there a possibility that the funny Pachyrhinoceros "nore 
>lump" sported a big huge horn?  Like they showed in the PBS 
>"Dinosaurs" series.  Also, how similar is the Pachyrhino nose bump 
>to the new Two Medicine ceratopsian (I can't remeber if its 
>Achelosaurus or Einosaurus (sic) that has the similarly messy 
>looking bone in that area). 
>
>LN Jeff
>

    'Allo again,
            I sincerly doubt that Pachyrinoceros (or is that 
Pachyrinosaurus? I've heard both...) had a big-ass horn on it's snout.
Just recently I was studying the beast for art purposes and I 
couldn't help but notice that it has an absolutley huge head 
in comparison to it's body already; that problem would be compounded 
by one of _The Dinosaurs_ style horns. The only way I can see it 
being able to hold it's head up with one of those is for it to have 
an incredibally muscled neck and perhaps some kind of counter balance 
at the rear.
            I don't know what it's worth, but that's what I think...

Cory Gross
artist,writer,philosopher,scientist
gros4891@adc.mtroyal.ab.ca

                    "Sanity, you're a madman!!"-The Tick