Just following the trend of questioning...

["Nicholas Gardner" <n_gardner637@hotmail.com>]

I'm just following the current trend of other list members in asking 
questions:

1)  Will there be more information published on the new Eichstatt 
coelurosaur?  I've heard that it might be troodontid.  Why?  Does anyone 
know anything more?

2)  Did the truth ever come out about Avimimus and its supposed premaxillary 
teeth?  Are they just serrated margins or are they really teeth?

3)  What ever happened with the mating oviraptorid specimen?

4)  I was reading an article by HP Darren Naish (I think?) entitled "Birds 
Of A Feather".  About so far in, a South African ichnotaxon named 
Masitisisauropus is mentioned. Apparently it preserves feather imprints that 
fan out around the hands and feet.  Is any other information known on this 
creature?

5)  Did phorusrhacoids have hyper-extendible second pedal digits?

6)  Luis Rey's new painting of Deinonychus includes a quote from a paper by 
Alan Gishlick in which a special design is found in the hands of 
Archaeopteryx, Confuciusornis, Deinonychus, and Velociraptor that allows the 
third finger to be used in the place of the second finger.  Regardless, the 
quote also mentions that it is possibly found in Protarchaeopteryx and 
Caudipteryx.  It is in Caudipteryx, but how about Protarchaeopteryx?  Is it 
found in any other taxa aside from the ones already mentioned?

7)  Is any information known on "Sidormimus"?  Is it an ornithomimosaur?

Thanks in Adv.,

Nick Gardner

AIM - CloudRaptor05
MSN - n_gardner637@hotmail.com

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