Re: Jeholornis skull

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

> From: "Nick Gardner" <ratites637@hotmail.com>
> Reply-To: ratites637@hotmail.com
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu, AltperDino@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Jeholornis skull
> Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 21:52:17 -0500
>
> I am preparing a life reconstruction of Jeholornis prima and I have 
> completed most of the body, but have not filled in the details on the 
> skull.  Would it have had a keratinous covering over its snout or not?  And 
> were the second pedal claws hyperextensible?
>
>
> Nick Gardner


Jeholornis prima had teeth that have gone through a great deal of 
degeneration, its upper and lower jaws are robust and well developed, this 
gives to why it ate seeds. I'm not sure it had a beak, I seen a lot of 
ilustrations with a grey part at the end of the snout, but I believe it 
didn't, but I could be wrong. As for the second pedal claws I have no idea 
all I do know that its similar to that of dromaeosaurs and troodontids, I 
could only assume it did, and as for that I could be wrong aswell!


Steven Coombs
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