Re: "Hypsilophodontidae" et al

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Mickey Mortimer (mickey_mortimer111@msn.com) wrote:

<Zephyrosaurus is just known from a partial skull, mandible fragment, and
vertebral peices.>

  There is a another partial skeleton including most of the vertebrae,
ribs, and most of the limb bones and another skull, located in the MOR
collections, but this is undescribed as yet.

<Othnielia has been described in various places, though no skull is
known.>

  A skull is not possessed in any museum, but the type skeleton
purportedly had a skull. When the specimen was first identified in the
field, it was both the skull and postcrania, but could not be collected.
When the team returned to the skeleton after a season, the skull was
missing, and they could only collect the postcrania. There's a real thirst
for skulls (I don't know why as hypsie postcrania is so much more
interesting) of dinosaurs. Another purported *Othneilia* skull is
apparently out there, but I've only seen a cast of it, and it's all
crushed and mixed up.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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