Re: THIS IS NOT WHAT I TOOK A PICTURE OF!!!!!!!!!!

[Stang1996@aol.com]

In a message dated 95-12-05 00:36:43 EST, you write:

>I have been puzzling over the very same thing myself, after having read
>Dale's paper and also seen the very same specimen that you photographed. You
>might also ask why the mounted skeleton of _Alxasaurus_ on the same tour
>looks so different from the type specimen, in those areas which they have in
>common.

Quite so.  One of the most obvious (and easy to point out) *discrepencies* is
the extreme shortness of the mount's thumb; in my opinion, attempting to make
it look more theropodan than it really was.

Peter Buchholz
Stang1996@aol.com