Re: DinoMorph Strikes Back!... or does it?

[Denver Fowler <df9465@yahoo.co.uk>]

> Not so with poor sauropods, by the way.   Their
> death pose exceeds 
> articulation, and thus probably exceeds what they
> could  comfortably achieve in life.  
> Sorry, but the juvenile _Camarasaurus_ CM  11338 is
> probably preserved in a 
> death pose, unless you believe that they could  go
> around with their necks all 
> out of articulation.
> 

Surely (based on the CM juve) if Camarasaurus held
it's neck upright, you could equally argue that it
should be reconstructed with its tail upright too,
looking like a set of football posts.

http://www.lhl.lib.mo.us/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/dino/gil1925.htm

And the tail was even more constricted in the original
find, than in the 'corrected' posture (why do this
anyway?). Where's the debate? These are clearly
post-mortem features.

D.

(US football btw)


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