Re: supersaurus tail thingy

["Ken Kinman" <kinman@hotmail.com>]

Raymond,
    Actually I think it's the same tail club.  The tail club once assigned 
to Omeisaurus was apparently reassigned to Shunosaurus.  That's my 
understanding anyway.
                   ------Ken
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> From: Raymond Ancog <rayancog@pacific.net.ph>
> Reply-To: rayancog@pacific.net.ph
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: supersaurus tail thingy
> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 03:49:56 +0800
>
> John Scheiderman wrote:
>
> > On the same line, is it possible that the club-like tail feature found in
> > the Chinese Omeisaurus may also be a "popper"?  The club-like feature a
> > product of fossilization.
>
> I don't know about Omeisaurus, but another Chinese sauropod, Shunosaurus,
> did sport a club-tipped tail. Maybe it didn't produce a sonic boom, but it
> must have been a defensive weapon.
>
>
> Raymond Thaddeus C. Ancog
> Mines and Geosciences Bureau
> Philippines

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