Postures different in plate A and B
Original Article
Complete Primate Skeleton from the Middle Eocene of Messel in Germany: Morphology and Paleobiology
Postures different in plate A and B
Posted by coblo on 01 Jun 2009 at 13:55 GMT
How come the relative positions of the head and hindleg are different in Plate A and Plate B? It looks to me like Plate B is less hunched over.
I could understand the difference in tail position due to Plate B tail fabrication, although I'm guessing that is not actually the reason.No competing interests declared.
This is explained in Figure 1: http://www.plosone.org/ar...
Basically, much of the lumbar region of the WDC specimen is fake.No competing interests declared.
The left is a fossil that found in two nearly complete pieces. The right is the endocast (a trace fossil) and was incomplete. The new material was made using casts of the real fossil. At least that what I got out of their text.
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