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Re: sauropod feeding dogma*

GSPaul writes;

>The neck base
>vertebrae of diplodocids will only articulate in a horizontal posture.

Just because the base of the neck was held horizontally, doesn't mean that the
rest of the neck has to follow suit.  When I say that the head was held aloft,
I imagine the upward bend starting ~1/4 of the way from the body, not at the
body/neck connection.

Rob

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