Re: STEGOSAUR TAILS (WAS DUCKBILL NECKS)

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

Brian, as always you make good, well constucted arguments but still I say
phooey on these lifted tails.  Since when are in situ fossils necessarily
placed the way the animals were in life?  Let's have all dinosaurs walk
around with their necks pulled back over their torsos.  There are lots of
in situ skeletons like that.

> 
> USNM 4934 (the Smithsonian's famous "roadkill" stegosaur) shows a
> good-sized tail fragment that is straight. Ken Carpenter's DMNH
> stegosaur (the one that indicated the positioning of the dorsal plates)
> has an in-situ tail that Ken personally described to me as "ram-rod
> straight" from the hips.