Re: Pygostyle

[rjmeyer@ix.netcom.com (Rob Meyerson)]

>Timothy Williams wrote:
>>_Megaraptor_ the same as _Unenlagia_?  _Megaraptor_'s big megalosaur-like
>>arms would look quite funny hanging from the shoulders of a dino-bird.  Do
>>you mean _Unquillosaurus_?
>
>Grant Harding wrote;
>"Megalosaur-like"?  As I recall, only two arm bones are known from
>_Megaraptor_: a radius (or possibly ulna?) and one bit of a finger.  (Could
>be wrong, though; my only ref is _Nat. Geo._ Dec. '97.)  I believe the idea
>was that _Unenlagia_ was the juvenile form and _Megaraptor_ was the adult.
>Anyone?

Forgive my ignorance, but I was under the impression that Megalosaur was a 
"trash can" grouping, where the connections between the different genuses (sp?) 
was sketchy at best.  Did someone make sense of it while I wasn't looking? :^)


Rob Meyerson

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