This is very nearly the last photo I have from the Carnegie, such a shame, I’ll just have to go again. As noted before the museum does a nice line in small cabinets and displays of elements alongside and this little collection sits below the wonderfully mounted Diplodocus. I assume all of the material here represents that genus but I may have kinda forgotten to take a photo of the label so I don’t know for sure, though the skull at least is a bit of a give away.
Dude, pls. This is not flotsam. At worst, it’s Shards Of Excellence. But in fact it’s pretty amazing material. Yes, it’s definitely diplodocid.
For anyone who’s having trouble interpreting the picture:
— The skull in the foreground is lying on its left side, and we are looking at it in left anteroventrolateral view (i.e. from the left, in front and below).
— There are three cervical vertebrae in the background. From left to right, they are:
* facing down into the ground, viewed in right posterolateral
* upside-down, facing to left of the picture and viewed in right ventrolateral
* facing up into the air and viewed in left dorsolateral
Very nice!
“Dude, pls. This is not flotsam.”
Just a little sarcasm to start the day 🙂
It’s actually CM 3452, a subadult Diplodocus. The only Diplodocus skull that has been found together with cervical vertebrae…