Re: NEW PENTACERATOPS PAPER

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

Is this right?  The skull is more that 3 meters long, yet the whole animal
was only more than 5 meters long? Or was the skeleton (postcranial, that
is) alone 5 meters?

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> From: Tetanurae@aol.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: NEW PENTACERATOPS PAPER
> Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 7:46 PM
> 
> This came out of the latest issue of Journal of Paleontology:
> 
> Lehman, T M.  1998.  A gigantic skull and skeleton of the Horned Dinosaur
> _Pentaceratops sternbergi_ from New Mexico.  Journal of Paleontology
> 72(5):894-906.
> 
> Lehman describes a very very large, resonably complete skull and skeleton
of P
> sternbergi.  Additionally, he talks about chasmosaurine phylogeny and the
> likes.  The skull, although missing most of the frill is estimated to be
more
> than 3 metres long, which makes it bigger than any other terrestrial
> vertebrate's.
> 
> He also does a skeleton restoration, which had been hard for P sternbergi
> previously bacause skulls and skeletons were never positively associated
with
> skeletal elements.  Now if the scale bar on this drawing is correct, it
shows
> that Pentaceratops was gigantic, more than 5 metres long, and possibly
bigger.
> Also, the tail is especially short, not even reaching the ground.
> 
> There is also a paper on a new Eocene protocetid called _Georgiacetus_. 
Neat
> lookin stuff, fairly complete
> 
> Peter Buchholz
> Tetanurae@aol.com
> 
> Where are the friggin abstracts?