Re: Procompsognathus manus

["Mickey_Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer@email.msn.com>]

Larry Febo wrote-


> OK.....how many (manual) digits does it possess? Just read through
> Heilmann`s ol book "The Origin of Birds". pg 173 shows diagram showing at
> least 1 proximal phalange on mc5. Yet webpage at:
> http://www.io.com/~mwalk/hmnh/compypage.html
> describes it as having only four digits on the manus.

The holotype specimen (SMNS 12591) has a partial manus with four metacarpals
preserved.  It is from a coelophysoid closely related to Segisaurus.  The
referred specimen (SMNS 12352) has a partial manus with five metacarpals,
but is actually from the sphenosuchian Saltoposuchus.

Mickey Mortimer