Re: PALEONEWS:Huge dinosaur's neck bones unearthed in Texas

["Timothy Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>]

WILLIAM PARKER <wgp@dana.ucc.nau.edu> wrote:

> This line is also from the article.
> "It is extremely rare. Only a partial cervical vertebrae of an adult
> alamosaurid
>                   has been found before in the late Cretaceous."
>
> Is this true? I know Gilmore collected a partially articulated specimen
> from the North Horn Formation in central Utah.  I can't recall whether
> or not he collected cervicals.

No cervicals, or dorsals either.  The partial skeleton (USNM 15560) of 
_Alamosaurus_ collected by Gilmore from the North Horn Fm included a nice 
series of articulated caudals, a sacrum (not collected) and various other 
postcranial elements, but no cervicals.


Tim
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