Re: Snoozing Sauropods, Batman!

[Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk>]

In article <12b.631781a7.3030d8c5@aol.com>,  wrote:
> That's a real problem when it comes to sauropods, since their appendicular  
> joints were so almost amorphic compared to those of their nearest size  
> equivalents, elephants & mammoths.
>
       Huh? "amorphic"?
       A angleskii, pozhalista.
       I think you're meaning either that the sauropod bones are lacking in 
well-fossilised knobbly bits (implying unfossilised cartilaginous knobbly 
bits), but you could be meaning that there are just not many distinguishing 
features to sauropod knee knobbles (I have a slightly surreal image involving 
Cleethorpe beach and a "Name that Sauropod" contest. I've got to get a better 
mushroom identification book!), or you could be meaning that what knobbly bits 
there are don't appear to constrain the possible range of movement (without 
dislocation)  by much.
       
-- 
 Aidan Karley,
 Aberdeen, Scotland,
 Location: 57°10' N,  02°09'  W (sub-tropical Aberdeen), 0.021233
 Written at Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:27 +0100



                
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