Comments on: Cargenie dinosaurs

By: My very own Zhuchengtyrannus « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings

My very own Zhuchengtyrannus « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 16:23:51 +0000

[...] wonderful critters. So when a couple of weeks back I got a cryptic e-mail from Matt Lammana of the Carnegie about having a gift for me from China connected with one of ‘my’ dinosaurs, I did have [...]

By: Archosaur Musings 2011 roundup « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings

Archosaur Musings 2011 roundup « Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 08:29:36 +0000

[...] brought another major first, my trip to the US and more specifically the Carnegie in Pittsburgh. I have Mike Habib to thank for his generous hospitality and in supporting my trip [...]

By: johnny

johnny — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:39:46 +0000

Very interesting, I must go to Natural History Museum.

By: iljanieuwland

iljanieuwland — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:51:57 +0000

By the way, if anyone ever wants to look at the Holland papers, they better be quick. They’re in an atrocious condition, particularly the (very interesting) press clippings collection.

By: Ilja Nieuwland

Ilja Nieuwland — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:34:49 +0000

I spent the last three days in the Carnegie Natural History Library looking over the Holland papers, shame I missed you.

By: David Hone

David Hone — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:37:24 +0000

You should come with spoiler alerts Mike! I had a post planned on this very issue. Ah well, still have other photos of said cervicals to show off this breadth in it’s full splendor.

By: Mike Taylor

Mike Taylor — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:30:22 +0000

I love the way that angle of the Apatosaurus louisae necks shows that the left cervical ribs alone accounted for more of the necks diameter than the centra and spines put together. It shows just how stupidly too thin the neck is in most traditional restorations of Apatosaurus. (Happily, more recent restorations have got much better at this, though they still shy away from full craziness.)