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Hadrosaur Sacrum

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Boneheads Club excavated, cleaned, prepared, molded, cast, and mounted these specimens.

bones on lone from the Ken Barns Collection

"Dinosaurs of Texas" Exhibit at the Grace Museum 2003-04

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Period: Upper Cretaceous, Boquillas formation

Location: near Terlingua Texas

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The Sacrum is a section of fused vertebra that give the hip stability.  The bone bar on the side is where the femur attached.  Even though dinosaurs walked upright like mammals, they did not have ball & socket joints like we do.

This specimen still had recognizable tendons.  A Hadrosaur had a stiff back and tail because of these tendons.

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Just out of the field case

Jumbled spines

Opening up

Half cleaned

Cast for mounting

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