Hip Height (was: RE: New Tyrannosaurus paper)

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>

> Hip height for striding vertebrates is most often calculated as "femur
> length + tibiotarsus length + metatarsus length.

I've always wondered, why is the ilium never included in hip height?  
Surely, the top of ilium is the top of the hip, is it not?

Jordan Mallon

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