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Re: Any images of _Scipionyx samniticus_ on the web already...?
Ralph Miller III <gbabcock@best.com> wrote
>Now it's my turn to ask a few questions. What are the dimensions of the
>depicted fossil slab? What is the projected length of the animal? How do
>we pronounce its name?
The length given in the article as 23.7 cm from the tip of premaxilla to the
last
(ninth) preserved caudal vertebra. From the pictures in the Nature with scale
bar, the skull appears to be ~5.2 cm long. The ratios given in the article are
forlimb/presacral 0.75, skull/presacral 0.48. Average diameter of the intestine
is 5.22 mm.
Gautam Majumdar gautam@majumdar.demon.co.uk