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Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Garden

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Austin Photographer John R. Rogers shot this photograph. Check out the website JohnRRogers.com for more information & please make a comment .

The day I shot this photograph I was not actually out "shooting" but simply playing tour guide to some out of town guest. I actually captured three marketable images that day. Two exterior shots including the garden (one vertical & one horizontal), and a photograph of the "Texas Marquee" inside. As a side note, I was not actually supposed to shoot inside the the museum, but I just could not help myself. Subsequently they became a vendor selling my images in the gift shop including the clandestinely photographed interior shot. I’ll include the Marquee image in a future post. You can see my other Texas History Museum Images here or other Austin images here.

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Falcarius utahensis, pelvic girdle, at the Natural History Museum of Utah

Image by Dallas Krentzel
The pelvic girdle of Falcarius utahensis, at the Natural History Museum of Utah (at the time in George Thomas Museum of Natural History) on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, UT. Falcarius is a basal therizinosaur, a group of theropods (carnivorous dinosaurs) that evolved into herbivores with large bodies, long necks, and in some cases, massive claws on the forelimbs. And I mean truly massive…

Another thing that is notable about therizinosaurs is their bird like pelvis. Dinosaurs can be broken up, phylogenetically, into two groups, the saurischians (which means ‘lizard-pelvis’), which the sauropods and theropods belong to, and the ornithischians (which means ‘bird-pelvis’), which the ceratopsians, stegosaurs, ankylosaurs, hardosaurs, etc, all belong to. The saurischians, as should be obvious by the name, have pelvises that resemble lizards, with the pubis projected forward, while the ornithischians have a backward pointing pubis*, like birds. Interestingly, the ornithischian-type pelvis actually evolved repeated among the saurischians, and birds are the major example. But therizinosaurs also evolved an ornithischian-like pelvis, with a backward pointing pubis. That’s why I took this photo. As a basal therizinosaur, Falcarius represents a transition of sorts, where the pelvis is still obviously saurischian, but unlike most saurischians, the pubis is pointing almost directly downward, or ventrally, rather than forward, or anteriorly. In later therizinosaurs, the pubis will begin pointing backward, likely reflecting their new life style as grazers, rather than predators that require a more cursorial (running-lifestyle) body plan.

*Although the ornithischian pubis does have a forward projecting process near its dorsal margin.