Mystery Sauropod Skull (was Copenhagen Mamenchisaurus)

[Mark Hallett <marksabercat@yahoo.com>]

Hi Mike, Do you or anyone else on the List know
anything about the "unnamed sauropod" skull repro
being offered by Dinocast? The details put forth are
that it's allegedly an 80% complete juvenile
camarasaurid, Late Jurassic, from Oker, Germany. They
also cite it as "the first sauropod skull from
Europe." Is this for real, and why haven't we heard
about this before? If the reconstruction is accurate,
it could actually be a juvenile brachiosaurid, judging
from the hypertrophied nasals and morphology of the
right maxilla shown. If anyone has information on this
I'd like to know more. (By the way, Mike, that sample
review chapter is going out to you this weekend--)

--Mark Hallett 

--- Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com> wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 12:50:42 +0000
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Oct=E1vio_Mateus?=
> <omateus@dinocasts.com>
> > 
> > I can say the original specimen of the
> Mamenchisaurus at Copenhagen,
> > but Niels Bonde, from Copenhagen, told me that the
> cast is a
> > Mamenchisaurus with a Diplodocus skull.
> 
> Yup, that's pretty clear when you see the mount.
> 
> > The similar cast of the Mamenchisaurus
> hochuanensis can be seen at
> >
>
http://www.dinocasts.com/productDetails.asp?productId=119
> at
> > Dinocasts.com website.
> 
> Aha!  Very useful link, thanks.  Comparing with my
> own photos of the
> Copenhagen exhibit, I am pretty damned certain they
> are both cast from
> the same original -- e.g. the cervicals are broken
> in the same way.
> So it looks like the mystery of its species, at
> least, is resolved.
> 
>  _/|_ 
>
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