Re: *Procompsognathus*

[Dann Pigdon <dannj@alphalink.com.au>]

Justin S Tweet wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 17:29:18 -0700 (PDT) "Jaime A. Headden"
> <qilongia@yahoo.com> writes:
> [snip]
> >Dinosaurs, along with their immediate outgroups, are
> > diagnosed by the abscence of the fifth metacarpal and any phalanges
> > associated with it. On the off-chance that paedomorphosis produces a
> > dinosaur with a five fingered manus _aside_ from a questionable
> > specimen like SMNS 12352, then we'll talk digits, dudes.
> 
> Are you sure dinosaurs are diagnosed by the absence of the fifth
> metacarpal? Sauropodomorphs and most ornithischians have five-fingered
> hands (and *Eoraptor* has a splint of an MC V).  Do you mean a different
> clade, like Theropoda?-*Thescelosaurus*
> 

There's a set of trackways near Mt Morgan in Queensland, Australia, that
seem to show five fingered manus prints associated with what have been
described as theropod pes prints.

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