Re: Re: Re: Life's scale reduction since the Dinosaurs

["Nicholas J. Pharris" <pharrinj@PLU.edu>]

On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Jeffrey Martz wrote:

>      I've seen a drawing of Cope standing next to a vertebrae labeled 
> Amphicoelias.  The ends of the neaural arch and transerse processes were 
> gone, bu the centrum and the part that the arches and processes come off 
> of were intact.  The missing parts were drawn in.  The incomplete 
> vertebrae alone was taller than Cope.  Ken Carpenter might know the 
> drawing I'm talking about. 

There are (at least) two species of _Amphicoelias_ named (both, I 
believe, fairly dubious).  What you probably saw is the vertebra of 
_Amphicoelias altus_; the enormous one we've been discussing here is _A. 
fragillimus_.  That's my guess, anyway.

> 
> LN Jeff
> 

Nick Pharris
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