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Re: The Peters Strikes Back (pterosaurs)

To: "Jaime Headden" <ja_headden@qilong.8m.com>, <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Subject: Re: The Peters Strikes Back (pterosaurs)
From: Ronald Orenstein <ornstn@rogers.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 18:50:47 -0400
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At 03:46 PM 11/10/03 -0700, Jaime Headden wrote:

Extremely long hind limbs relative to forelimbs, as in some azhdarchoids, ctenochasmatoids, may favor an interpretation that they were also quadrupedal "waders" or walkers, but this falls udner the same lines as "rhamphorhynchoids,"

What about considering them to be arboreal suspensors? Longer hind limbs than forelimbs are certainly a feature of a number of arboreal animals, such as sloths, some fossil "slothlike" lemurs, and gibbons (though I'm not suggesting pterosaurs were brachiators!); perhaps colugos are not a bad analogy.

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