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Know Your Bones: December 2013

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Discussion thread for the blog entry "Know Your Bones: December 2013" by he_who_is_nobody.

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Dimetrodon? I know that's a genus but there's no chance I'm going to identify the species.
 
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he_who_is_nobody said:
Could you elaborate on your "Google-fu"?
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Alright, but it's rather cheap :oops:

This is type of challenge is not really my thing so I was excited when I saw the skeleton and thought I recognised it at least to the species level. A quick trip to Wikipedia confirmed that I was right but when I went to post it someone had already got there with the species. *Challenge mode engaged*

Now I had to get the answer but, as I said, no relevant experience in this topic so I started searching for the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. Eventually I found a photo on some guys blog taken from a slightly different angle of the same specimen and the plaque was somewhat legible (*zoom/enhance*) - enough to make out that it matched 'limbatus' from the list of Dimetrodon genuses on Wikipedia.

So I solved it with judicious use of Google and Wikipedia rather than by bone ID, but I figured enough time had passed that no one was going to post the answer, so I went ahead.
 
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Aught3 said:
So I solved it with judicious use of Google and Wikipedia rather than by bone ID, but I figured enough time had passed that no one was going to post the answer, so I went ahead.
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Oh, I love this. Great work. :D
 
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