Re: Duckbill necks

["Peter Von Sholly" <vonrex@gte.net>]

And nobody ever noticed this before (in the old days) when they were
putting stegosaurs together?  Besides, as long as they articulate with the
angle of the spine, they could slope gently downward, NOT dragging on the
ground, no.  I maintain there is some leeway in how bones can be put
together.  Some.  Sometimes.  I was told once by a preparator who shall
remain nameless that he was very excited about the new stegosaur tail
orientation and wanted to be the first (or one of the first) to have his
museum's specimen mounted that way-  but the funny thing was, it wouldn't
GO together that way.  I asked how it DID want to go together and he said
it had a natural, but gentle, downward slope to it.  Now, he may have been
wrong, but that's what he told me.
I NEVER saw stegosaur tails like that anywhere until Steve Czerkas came out
with his and Greg Paul picked up on it and suddenly it was no other way! 
(I assume Czerkas was first, then Paul-  if I am wrong, let me have it).
But I do like the Von Shollywood part...

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> From: Jaime A. Headden <qilongia@yahoo.com>
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Cc: vonrex@gte.net
> Subject: Re: Duckbill necks
> Date: Wednesday, September 02, 1998 9:02 PM
> 
> Pete von Shollywood wrote:
> 
> <People used to say to me "hey, did you hear they just discovered that
> stegosaurs only had one row of plates right down the middle of their
> backs"?  (And suddenly all stegosaurs also walk around with their
> tails parallel to the ground like they're about to defecate at all
> times. Where'd that come from and why is it suddenly the norm?)>
> 
>   Oh, some reason, I'm sure, like the vertebrae at the base of the
> tail are so short front-to-back that they could hardly turn in _any_
> direction (something I was educated about a little while ago, during
> the Stego-Sex thread) along with the long plates preventing most
> flexure along the rest of the tail.
> 
> ==
> Jaime A. Headden
> 
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