Elasmosaur Necks

["Dino Rampage" <dino_rampage@hotmail.com>]

The article in PT # 53 about elasmosaurs left me a little confused. So 
elasmosaur necks were quite inflexible after all. While I'd always felt that 
the old reconstructions & paintings were somewhat far-fetched, this now 
calls into doubt several of the more 'modern' paintings & models. I suppose 
that any picture of an elasmosaur with its neck extended straight ahead is 
quite safe, but to what extent could elasmosaurs move their necks? Would it 
be somewhat similar to the inflexibility of diplodocid necks? I have 
included here a few pictures of elasmosaurs and I hope that everyone here 
can help tell me which neck positions are now obsolete and which are still 
likely. Thanks!


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