RE: Titanosaur Reconstruction

["Tracy L. Ford" <dino.hunter@home.com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
Richard W Travsky
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 1:01 PM
To: dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: Titanosaur Reconstruction


 http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1469000/1469079.stm

Paleontologists have pieced together the most complete skeleton yet of a
titanosaur, finally putting a face on one of the world's most common, but
least understood dinosaurs.

The juvenile creature, which lived 65-70 million years ago, was discovered
in a quarry in Madagascar.
...

Having now recovered an exceptional specimen, with both head and body
intact for the first time, Kristina Curry Rogers said paleontologists
could build a more realistic picture of titanosaurs.

It settled, she said, the argument over whether these animals had a
slender-snouted, horsey look with nostrils on top of the head and small
teeth positioned to the front of the jaw; or rather a bulldog-shaped head
with nostrils on the side.

Rapetosaurus krausei shows the former to be the case.<<

Nice to see its out. But if I remember correctly from the SVP talk, the
skull was in pieces and that's the way they reconstructed it. Its not the
first 'Titanosaur' skull, there's one from South America (see archives) and
this one beat them to it.

Tracy L. Ford
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