Re: south american theropods

["Steven Coombs" <gasperex@hotmail.com>]

> From: Waylon Rowley <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: south american theropods
> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 17:28:02 -0800 (PST)
>    I suppose that's possible, but I don't see any
> indications of it. I thought the whole purpose of
> having an infratemporal fenestra was to provide a
> window which the adductor muscles could bulge out
> through. It would be strange for a dinosaur to evolve
> a sinus in that position. The most posterior facial
> diverticulum I know of is the suborbital one shown in
> this pic:
> http://www.oucom.ohiou.edu/dbms-witmer/images/Allosaurus_copy.gif
>
>
> Cheers,
> Waylon Rowley
>
> "My train of thought has become a runaway caboose."


But could there still be a small space between these mucles?

Steven Coombs
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