Re: MORE "SICKLE" STUFF

["Peter Von Sholly" <vonrex@gte.net>]

And I didn't generalize about Dromaeosaurids- I quite clearly said
"Deinonychus specimens".  And that's all I was talking about.  If my
information was wrong, I'm sorry.  If not, then what I said should stand as
a valid point.  By the way, how many Utahraptor feet (since you brought it
up) have we found to assess from?

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> From: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. <th81@umail.umd.edu>
> To: vonrex@gte.net; dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: MORE "SICKLE" STUFF
> Date: Tuesday, September 30, 1997 3:51 PM
> 
> At 03:46 PM 9/30/97 -0700, you wrote:
> >Well, supposedly not all the Deinonychus specimens had a super large
claw
> >there- in fact, to my knowledge only one did, so it may have had a
display
> >function (among others).  Sexual dimorphism? 
> 
> Where are you getting this (mis)information?  Dromaeosaurids from
> Deinonychus to Velociraptor (check the foot of the type, for example) to
> Utahraptor are characterized by this big second digit claw.
> 
> Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
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