RE: Postosuchus posture

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2002 9:37 AM
To: aspidel@wanadoo.be; The Dinosaur Mailing List
Subject: RE: Postosuchus posture

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From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of Aspidel

Hi dear dino-list members,

For _Postosuchus_, what's the most likely currently? A quadrupedal posture like in WWD or a semi-bipedal posture like in Doug Henderson's

http://gallery.in-tch.com/~earthhistory/posto-desmato-triassic2.jpg ?

Thanks in advance, friendly - Luc J. "Aspidel" BAILLY.

The WWD Postosuchus was based on more recent research by Murray & Long, which suggests a more typical quadrupedal habit for this critter. Their contention was that Chatterjee's bipedal Postosuchus was a chimera of different taxa.

I was talking to Chatterjee a few years ago and he told me he has a student working on Postosuchus. New material as well as old and we’ll I wouldn’t be so keen on how Postosuchus walked until then. (I don’t want to give away anything because the research is being done as we ponder Postosuchus).

Tracy L. Ford

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Poway Ca 92074