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Re: Pygostyle



On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Grant Harding wrote:

> 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_?
> 
> "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?

Yeah, and since when are megalosaur[id] arms big?

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