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Stegosuarus at Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia?
Ancora Temple in Cambodia
Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia
Pictures coursey of Don Patton. His web site is at www.bible.ca.
Is there a Stegosuarus carved at Ta Prohm Temple in Cambodia?
After close observation, there are a number of good reasons to believe that the carving is not a stegosaurus.
- The head of the animal looks more like a rhino and not a stegosaurus. The stegosaurus head is much smaller with a neck. It is hard to see from the photo if there is a horn, or a broken off horn.
- The tail has no spikes. A stegosaurus has four large spikes on the end of its tail.
Photo coursey of ZoomDinosaurs.com .
- The humps on the back of the animal look like they are not connected to the animal, but are background decorations as seen in other carvings of animals in the same column. These humps are not even the same shape as the plates on a stegosaurus. The plates form points at the top. The plates go from the head to the tail spikes.
Notice the background decoration on this animal.
Permission given to use pictures by phone by Don Patton on 11/21/2006}