Re: Upright fossilisation posture

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

That also reminds me of a new _Chasmosaurus_ sp. specimen that Dr. Robert 
Holmes will be describing shortly.  As I understand it, it too was preserved 
in an upright position, and may even reveal some clues as to the posture of 
the ceratopian forelimb.  I saw the specimen myself in collection last year, 
although much of it is still burried in the matrix.

I await anxiously with the rest of you...

-Jordan Mallon

http://www.geocities.com/paleoportfolio/

> From: "calzola" <calzola@iol.it>
> Reply-To: calzola@iol.it
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Subject: Upright fossilisation posture
> Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 19:46:15 +0200
>
> Hi  All,
> a strange find has been made by the Sino-American crew in inner Mongolia 
> and I just wanted to know if something similar had been reported before: 
> some theropods( ornithomimids) have been found in an upright posture "as if 
> they were crouching[when died]".
> I remember reading about some quite similar findings (ankilosaurs and 
> sauropods[?]), but  nothing theropodan.
>
> They think they've found a therizinosaur too...cool!
>
> bye
> FC




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