Comments on: Neck multifunctionality http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/neck-multifunctionality/ Thu, 23 May 2013 06:57:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mark Robinson http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/neck-multifunctionality/#comment-9245 Sat, 21 May 2011 02:53:20 +0000 http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/?p=5485#comment-9245 Ah, so that’s why so many sauropod fossils are missing the skull. They’re the combat losers who have had their head smashed off their necks by a rival! And Shunosaurus’ tail club was a false head used to deceive rivals into attacking the wrong end.

Sauropods – inventors of the game of conkers.

]]> By: David Hone http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/neck-multifunctionality/#comment-9234 Thu, 19 May 2011 09:59:29 +0000 http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/?p=5485#comment-9234 Well its’ probably a very large part of it. They are made of very thin bits of bone and so are going to be very vulnerable to being broken, eroded, or just not preserved.

]]> By: Josephine http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/neck-multifunctionality/#comment-9233 Thu, 19 May 2011 09:52:34 +0000 http://archosaurmusings.wordpress.com/?p=5485#comment-9233 “…sauropod skulls are incredibly weak and fall apart if you look at them funny…”

First of all, that is a very illustrative sentence!
Second, is this the reason for why sauropod skulls have a habit to be missing from fossils? Or is another reason to blame?

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