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Re: Long-necked stegosaur coming out in Proceedings B
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- Subject: Re: Long-necked stegosaur coming out in Proceedings B
- From: Mike Taylor <mike@indexdata.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:53:13 +0000
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Saint Abyssal writes:
>
> Am I the only one who immediately thought of Bakker's "tripodal
> mid-height feeders" hypothesis from the Heresies when Miragaia was
> announced? It looks like he may have just been at least partially
> vindicated here. Did anyone ever investigate the Stegosaurs ability
> to rear up since Bakker proposed that? I remember there being some
> skepticism directed at the idea but never learned what really
> became of it.
That was followed up by T. R. Karbek in a well-known SVP poster.
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