Re: Brachiosaur Forelimb Proportions (Was: Isle of Wight)

[Mike Taylor <mike@tecc.co.uk>]

> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 16:36:04 +0000
> From: "Matthew Bonnan" <mbonnan@hotmail.com>
> 
> [...] Although cross-sectional shape will vary somewhat from
> specimen to specimen, the humeri and femora of sauropods tend to
> have an elliptical cross-section, although usually more pronounced
> in the femur than humerus.

... and ...

> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 17:38:16 +0100
> From: <darren.naish@port.ac.uk>
> 
> The humerus [of MIWG-BP001, the Barnes High brachiosaur] is squished
> flat, as I know from personal examination of the real thing [...]

Thanks, Matthew and Darren, for sorting this out for me.  I did
actually ask the bloke at the Dinosaur Farm museum if the bone was
crushed, and he said a little but not to the extent that it was
misleading on the real shape of the bone.  Now I know better -- I'll
tell him the next time I'm there :-)

> There is a good photo of the mounted limb in Martill and Naish
> (eds), _Dinosaurs of the Isle of Wight_.

Can you believe I passed up the opportunity to buy this book when I
physcially held it in my hands at the moribund IoW Geology Museum?  I
think because I'd not really seen any of the specimens, it didn't hold
the attraction for me that it does now.  Oh well, time to mail order
...

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