Re: Carnegie "Dippy" Saturday

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Christopher Srnka wrote:

>    Also new to the Museum (as far as I know) was a reconstruction of a
> Quetzalcoatlus above the dinosaur hall. I got good shots of that
> spectacular animal, and I was surprised at how long the neck really
> was on that species.

The azhdarchid neck is really something isn't it?  We approximated CV
lengths for the Qn replica by doing various ratios between the skeleton
of the Qsp wing vs the Qn wing and the Qsp CV V vs Aramb. CV V, then
checked it by estimations of wing chord based on the Qsp torso.  The Qn
model's neck and skull wound up being set at 2.06 times the length of
the Qsp neck and skull with the height of the neck set at a minimum of
2.67 (2.06*1.3) times that of Qsp.