Title: Dwarf Trike in the Hell Creek?
Camarasaurus - October 13, 2005 12:35 AM (GMT)
I wanted to start a new topic on this instead of dragging another ond on a tangent.
Dinochick you seem to have hinted you know a lottle about this. I have parts of 2 of these little buggers floating around in the lab. This year we collected a little bit, including brow horns, a dorsal vert, and possibly a metatarsal. That site is going to be revisited next year.
The weird thing isn't the small browhorns, it's the tiny (for a trike) dorsal. The neural arch is fused to the centrum, which seems to indicate it isn't a juvenile, yet it is less than half the height of many trike verts I've worked on.
Any theories on the critter?
Dinochick you seem to have hinted you know a lottle about this. I have parts of 2 of these little buggers floating around in the lab. This year we collected a little bit, including brow horns, a dorsal vert, and possibly a metatarsal. That site is going to be revisited next year.
The weird thing isn't the small browhorns, it's the tiny (for a trike) dorsal. The neural arch is fused to the centrum, which seems to indicate it isn't a juvenile, yet it is less than half the height of many trike verts I've worked on.
Any theories on the critter?
Dinochick - October 14, 2005 04:33 AM (GMT)
If you dont mind, I am going to wait till after SVP to comment ;) :P
Camarasaurus - October 15, 2005 12:55 AM (GMT)
No fair. I guess this means I have to look for your abstract in the supplemental issue!
Dinochick - October 15, 2005 03:52 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Camarasaurus @ Oct 15 2005, 12:55 AM) |
| No fair. I guess this means I have to look for your abstract in the supplemental issue! |
:P LOL, no worries from me, my work was all in the Javelina Formation in Big Bend. But I think I had beeter wait till after the meeting to comment, thats all. Sorry :hehe: :eh:
Camarasaurus - October 25, 2005 02:04 AM (GMT)
Comment away! I was getting to upload pics, but Photobucket seems to be down right now. Hopefully the verdict is that it's not something special, as I am sitting on a skull right now that I do NOT want tyo try and put back together.
Camarasaurus - October 25, 2005 02:52 AM (GMT)
Allrighty, here's a teaser of what we recovered this year.Dinochick - October 25, 2005 06:03 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Camarasaurus @ Oct 25 2005, 02:04 AM) |
| Comment away! I was getting to upload pics, but Photobucket seems to be down right now. Hopefully the verdict is that it's not something special, as I am sitting on a skull right now that I do NOT want tyo try and put back together. |
Feel free to send the skull my way :D I need a project of my own to work on at the moment...... ;)
Anyway, the consenus is that they really are just juv. Tric.s...even though it would be cool to have a new sp. it probably isn't :sarcasm: :( , just people finally collecting smaller material rather than trophy skulls