Re: TITANOSAUR HEADS

["Berislav Krzic" <veselinka.stanisavac@siol.net>]

Peter Buchholz
Tetanurae@aol.com
wrote:


<The new skull being described by Ruben Martinez, looks superficially like a
dicraeosaurid, or more specifically, Nemegtosaurus.  If you look at it from
the front however, the nasals are almost missing and seem to have formed a
very large arching nostril that is reminiscent of that in Brachiosaurus and
Camarasaurus, as well as what has been suggested for Nemegtosaurus by Calvo
and Salgado (I think).>

Nemegtosaurus had a very long narrow cranium. In original Polish paper it
was featured having diplodocid like nasals. Is there any material proof for
the brachiosaur-like nostril, except a "missing, ghost part"? If I am
correct,
isn't the same part of the skull missing from Dicraeosaurus and
Quaesitosaurus, too? Arching nostril is a serious possibility, but I doubt
it was as large and high as in brachiosaurids and camarasaurids.


Berislav Krzic
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ILLUSTRISSIMUS PRODUCTION
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