Re: A Dinosaur for the Mantle

[Jeffrey Martz <martz@holly.ColoState.EDU>]

>   A complete five-foot *Triceratops* skull (yung'un, ain't it?), a
> footprint attributed to a *Dilophosaurus*, and a small, about 15 foot
> or so, full skeleton with plates (I suspect it was prepared) of a
> *Stegosaurus*. What's incredible is that there is a whole swath of the
> ossicles found on the throat, running from the jowls to the chest,
> thicker and more concentrated up north, that suggests that the entire
> throat was armored, which certainly makes more sense to me than just
> an armored gular pouch.

     The Denver Museum of Natural History _Stegosaurus_ mount has the
ossicles running all the way down the throat.  

LN Jeff