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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu
[mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Tetanurae@aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001
2:21 PM
To: kinman@hotmail.com;
dinosaur@usc.edu
Subject: BIG-HEADED THEROPODS ARE
NOT SO BIG HEADED
Ken
Kinman wrote:
<<The longest dinosaur skulls are
apparently all theropods>>
Um Ken.... Ceratopian dinosaurs have far and away the longest dinosaurian
skulls. In fact I often work 5 metres from the largest known skull of any
land animal, the chasmosaurine Torosaurus.
Triceratops and Pentaceratops also had quite long skulls,
often times twice as long as their tyrannosauroid nemises.
Pete Buchholz
Tetanurae@aol.com<<
Ceratopian
skulls are in away, misleading. Sure, the total length of the skull is huge,
but the actually ‘skull’ in ‘normal’ ornithischians is from the occipital condyle
to the tip of the snout. We should ‘forget’ the back half of the skull and
concentrate on the front half of the skull. How big is the new Torosaurus
(which I thought was going to be availed at the SVP) from the occipital condyle
to the tip of the snout?
Tracy L. Ford
P. O. Box 1171
Poway Ca
92074
PS. Pete, you’re
at MOR now aren’t you. Must be great being so close to all those dinosaurs.