Re: Sinornithosaurus millenii Xu, Wang & Wu, 1999 (featherydromaeosaurid)

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

Of course not having seen the article yet and, after reading this
posting...my immediate thoughts were "Gee that's a small head"  -and- "I
wonder if the head is disarticualted due to the un-fused conditions
found in juvenile dinosaur craniums?"

Is it stated in the article if the authors feel this is an adult or not?

-Betty Cunningham

"Ralph W. Miller III" wrote:
> The specimen is small for a dromaeosaurid, with a skull which measures
> approximately 13 cm (5 1/8 ") long.
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> "Figure 1  _S. millenii_, Holotype, IVPP V12811.  The posterior part of the
> skull is disarticulated from the snout and lower jaws and turned 180 degrees
> in the opposite direction.  The postcranial skeleton is also not
> articulated, but the bones retain a close association.  Integumentary
> filaments have been displaced, lacking the direct relationships to bony
> elements."

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