RE: Ankylosaur Side-Body Spikes? (was TRex - Ankylosaur specialist?)

[Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>]

Quoting Vlad Petnicki <bucketfoot-al@justice.com>:

> *DOH!* (Sound of palm hitting forehead).  I bet that
> there was confusion about this way back in the 1970s,
> too - at least among illustrators.
>
> HARUMPH!  So my customized Ankylosaurus model (as seen
> on my web gallery
> http://bucketfoot-al.tripod.com/DinoModels/)- with
> side-body spikes is wrong, eh?  (Cue "South Park's"
> Eric Cartman voice: "G-DM-IT!")

Yeah, I hate to break it to you, but, to the best of my knowledge, 
there is no  ankylosaurid (excluding polacanthines/-ids) known to have 
possessed a skirt of long spikes around the sides of the body.  But I'm 
no expert.

--
Nick Pharris
Department of Linguistics
University of Michigan

"Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity."
    --Edwin H. Land