Re: Need Help

[Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)]

>I just got this message today from a student who seems to be doing some
>nice research for a 6th grader. I like to see students doing this kind of
>thing but I am afraid I will not be of much help to here.
>
>Unfortunately I don't have any mounted tyrannosaurid specimens here at the
>U of I Museum of Natural History so I cannot supply her with the
>information on leg length and foot length she would like to do
>tyrannosaurid gaits. Can anyone help her out.
>
>Perhaps Dinogeorge or Tom Holtz (or anyone else interested?) might have
>something to offer. Our only "specimen" so far is the tooth we brought back
>from our Hell Creek dig last year. It is near a show of other bones, but
>may just be a shed tooth. So I pass this along in hopes someone might have
>information they would care to share with Annette?
>
All of my tyrannosaurid hindlimb measurements were published in the appendix
of my paper in JVP 14(4).  I'll send her a copy, but if someone who lives
closer to her has a copy to show her, she can get started right away.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist
Dept. of Geology
University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742
Email:Thomas_R_HOLTZ@umail.umd.edu (th81)
Fax: 301-314-9661
Phone:301-405-4084