Re: Mononykus

["Øyvind M. Padron" <gorgosaur@hotmail.com>]

> I realize that he used the skull for Shuvuuia, but its the proportions!  
> The
> head is huge!
> I've never seen a reconstruction like this before, does anyone know what's 
> up?

First of all, Greg Paul is only human too, and he may aswell have done a 
mistake, and may have drawn the head too big.

But he's allso known for doing extensive research before he publishes a new 
restoration. No skulls of Alvarezsaurids have been discovered besides 
Shuvuuia, not even skull fragments as far as I know. I don't know the 
propotions between the Shuvuuia skull and it's postcranial fragments, but 
it's probably there he's based it from.
In other words, it's a Shuvuuia skull, with the Mononykus postcrania 
propotioned after the Shuvuuia postcranial elements.

Thants at least my thoughts on it.

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