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Luc J. "Aspidel" BAILLY asked, "What's this: http://www.geocities.com/yosemite/rapids/7751/dino1.jpg ?"
I'm no expert, but it looks like a metal
sculpture to me. :)
But we can be reasonably sure that the
sculpture was intended to reconstruct Wuerhosaurus homheni, Dong 1973, an Early
Cretaceous stegosaur roughly 120 years old, out of the Lianmuging Formation
of the Tigulu Group, and found near or in the town of Wuerho in Xinjiang, Uygur
Zizhiqu, People's Republic of China. Also, limited
material was found in the Ejinhoro Formation, Ordos Basin, Inner
Mongolia.
So far as I can determine, the bones found
are inadequate to reconstruct an accurate concept of the appearance of this
dinosaur, especially as to the shape of the plates atop the spine. At
least one such plate has been found (It is elongated horizontally, but not very
tall, proportionally.), but that leaves a lot of the external image of this
animal to artistic guesswork.
Ray Stanford
"You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles."
-- Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery
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