Re: pilot whales, gender names, elephants & trees...

[Tom Holtz <tholtz@geochange.er.usgs.gov>]

>Can a ref. be given for Tom Holtz' recent stuff on claw curvature in theropds
>please? ('grapple and slash', 'pursuit and bite' and all that). Many thanks.

The abstract was:

Holtz, T.R., Jr.  1994.  Predatory adaptations of the skull and unguals of
modern and extinct carnivorous amniotes.  Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology, 14 (Supplement to 3): 29A-30A.

The technical text is, well, somewhere between my frontals and my occiput...

I've been working on a pop audience version for the Dinosaur Report - that
will likely see light much sooner then the technical paper.

Oh, and a grant proposal, but I don't think that that would interest you
much (unless you have money.  Anyone?).

                                
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.                                   
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Vertebrate Paleontologist in Exile                  Phone:      703-648-5280
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