39a. Christman does Camarasaurus, 1921
In
addition to his delicate drawings of a Camarasaurus head, and his
construction of an articulated Camarasaurus skeleton (see
item 39), Erwin Christman contributed some other remarkable studies to
Osborn's and Mook's 1921 monograph on Camarasaurus. The plate
reproduced at right shows four views of a model sculpture of the sauropod.
And the illustration below shows an immense fold-out plate with a full
skeletal restoration. Notice that the animal is tallest at the shoulders,
rather than the hips. This misinterpretation would be corrected when the
articulated Carnegie juvenile Camarasaurus was found the very next
year (see
next item).
Source:Osborn, Henry Fairfield; Mook, Charles Craig. "Camarasaurus, Amphicoelias, and other sauropods of Cope," in: Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History, new series, vol. 3 (1921), pp. 247-387. This work is on display as exhibit item 39.
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