Re: Kansas Elasmosaur

["Allan Edels" <Edels@email.msn.com>]

Concerning Gus's question about exhibiting it (at NJ State Museum) - I don't
think so [I might be able to check - but it looks like a long shot], but
there is a reconstruction of the original (along with the backbone of the
original) at the Academy of Natural Sciences (in Phila.) - just under an
hour's drive from Trenton [or 35 minutes on the train].  It's the famous one
that Cope initial put the head on the wrong end (and he later tried to get
back all the copies of the paper to re-release it - but Marsh apparently
kept 2 of the original wrong papers),

    Allan Edels

-----Original Message-----
From: gejd@concentric.net <gejd@concentric.net>
To: Danvarner@aol.com <Danvarner@aol.com>
Cc: dinosaur@usc.edu <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Kansas Elasmosaur


>This is a very nice site with a detailed story about how the plesiosaur got
>to its final resting place. Unfortunately, it is hard to tell what parts of
>the story are based on evidence at the site and which parts (floating and
>bloating?) are just made up. For example, shark attacks are mentioned. Is
>there any evidence of shark bite marks on the preserved skeletal material?
>Impact on the sea floor could have caused the rupture and dissociation of
>the corpse, but it could also have been pulled apart by scavengers.
>
>Question: Will this skeleton every be exhibited at the New Jersey State
>Museum?
>I would really be interested in seeing it.
>-Gus Derkits
>Danvarner@aol.com wrote:
>
>>   Mike Everhart has asked that this be forwarded to the list:
>
>