Re: Water drag, gas lift and skeletal element weight. WAS Re: Fastovsky vs Archibald

[Tim Donovan <uwrk2@yahoo.com>]

--- Aidan Karley <aidan_karley@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>      This begs a fairly obvious question to me ...
> as a carcass decomposes, some 
> parts of it are going to produce gases, which in an
> aquatic transport situation is 
> going change the (buoyant volume)/weight relation.

 North American ankylosaurid specimens are often found
upside down, suggesting they bloated and floated.


        
>        Are skulls and pelvic girdles comparatively
> common as isolated elements? 


 Seems true for Nemegtian sauropods.


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