Re: BBC's WALKING WITH DINOSAURS Website

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

NJPharris@aol.com wrote:

> I mostly checked out the pterosaurs and theropods.
>  _Quetzalcoatlus_ has an old-school low head with rear crest (as in _Illo'ed
> Encyc. of Pterosaurs_)

It's worse than that.  the illustration bears no structural resemblance whatever
to Quetzalcoatlus.  The eye is too high and too far forward, the beak is the
wrong shape, the front of the crest is the wrong shape (the rear of the crest 
and
skull aren't known), the neck is too short (it should be about 140% of the 
length
of the skull, and about 2.8 times the length of the torso.  the legs from hip to
ankle should be about the same length as the skull.  I won't even get into my
opinion of the flight-worthiness of the position of the outer phalanges in the
right wing.  I did think the splotchy color pattern in the wing was neat.

Jim