Re: carcharodontine furculae

["Mickey Mortimer" <mickey_mortimer@email.msn.com>]

Adam Yates wrote-

> Further preparation on Segisaurus has revealed that the clavicles were
> fused into a furcula in that specimen as well. Furthermore the the
> ventral ends of the clavicles of Sinornithoides are broken so they could
> be the two ends of a furcula whose midsection is missing (especially
> since Troodon furculae have been described).

Are the Troodon furculae those described by Thulborn (1984)?  Has it been
determined that these were not in fact fused anterior gastralia?

Mickey Mortimer