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In a message dated 1/6/02 8:22:14 PM Pacific
Standard Time, Megavenator1985@msn.com writes:
<< Could someone please direct me to a skeletal diagram of a Thylacosmilus skeleton. >> To the best of my knowledge there is no complete skeleton of Thylacosmilus. although Riggs (1934) does describe some postcranial material. Mauricio Anton provides a reconstruction in 'Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives', Turner & Anton 1997, Columbia University Press. Myself and some colleagues (Wroe et al. 1999) have estimated the weight of the largest known individual at 116 kg using the methodology of Anyonge (1993). The paper can be pulled down from the homepage below. Cheers
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Dr Stephen Wroe
HOMEPAGE - http://www.bio.usyd.edu.au/staff/swroe/swroe.htm Institute of Wildlife Research, School of Biological Sciences (AO8) University of Sydney NSW Australia 2006 Email: swroe@bio.usyd.edu.au; Email: thylacoleo@optusnet.com.au Ph. 02 9351 8764; Ph. 02 9702 6435 ______________________________________________________ |