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| Captain Jacob on the SS Pointyface |
We're now back in our final push to get this giant Triceratops skull built and out of our workspace. We figure less than 3 weeks to go. All assembly is finished, save for installing the missing maxillary teeth. Steel work is also done (I incinerated 3 t-shirts during that process), all that it really left is details details details. Also painting. Today I should hopefully be finished hollowing out the ironstone from the orbits in the last bit of preparation.
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| A month's worth of work. Also I made the table. |
We've got a space picked out in the museum and will let all of our readers know when it goes on display, so you can come visit it in person. Sad thing is, I don't think this Triceratops has a name yet...
How much of that is real bone?
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nick
Hi Nick,
ReplyDeleteQuite a bit. Rostrum, right brow horn and right dentary are reconstructed. Frill is about 60% original. Much of the reconstruction on the frill that you can see is a thin skin over weathered bone. When all is finished, I'd estimate it at 70-75% original bone.
Is that a Triceratops horridus or a T. prorsus(its morphology is somewhat confusing: it has the long nasal horn of the latter but the nasal horncore's vertical orientation and rather long snout is indicative of the former). And is it a late subadult or a young adult?
ReplyDeleteThis is a Triceratops prorsus. While the nasal horncore is vertical, it is also much more massive than what is seen in T. horridus.
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