Re: Complete Dinosaur Mamenchisaur question

["Larry Dunn" <larrydunn@hotmail.com>]

>From: "Jaime Headden" <jaemei@hotmail.com>

>Larry Dunn wrote:
>
>>I just received The Complete Dinosaur today, and noted that the 
>>Sauropods chapter features several depictions of Mamenchisaurus 
>>holding its neck up. 
>
>There is only one *Mamenchisaurus* illustration (Greg Paul's) in that 
>book. The other dinosaur in similar position was *Euhelopus* (the less 
>compelte illustration), Mamenchi's direct ancestor. 

Check again.  There are in fact two illustrations of M. in TCD, one on 
page 273, the other on page 275.  Both feature a neck-up, giraffe-like 
M.  I understood that M. held it's neck horizontally, and that this was 
the only posture possible based on the configuration of the neck 
vertebrae.

Larry

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