Re: A direct request

["Ray Stanford" <dinotracker@earthlink.net>]

    Could anyone out there help me locate reconstructions of the pes
structures of any of the therizinosaurs (or of Segnosaurus).

    Reason?  I've come across the natural cast of a pes from the Early
Cretaceous of Maryland that is unlike any I have ever found before.  It has
'four on the floor' and a slightly triangular metatarsal pad (Is that the
correct term?), and most closely resembles supposed prosauropod pes prints,
but is a bit shorter in length.  Yes, I know there were no prosauropods in
the Early Cretaceous, but since Segnosaurus materials have been (if memory
serves me) tentatively mistaken for those of a prosauropod, I wondered if
the Segnosaurus foot might have a similarity to that a prosauropod.  All
right, maybe not, but I'm grasping for straws.

    Please help if you can.

    The natural pes cast I'm studying just does not look like any of my
concepts of a crocodilian imprint, but I'm willing to be enlightened in that
area, also.

    Thanks in advance.  If you prefer to respond privately, that might be a
better idea because so few on this list seem concerned with footprints.


    Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery