Re: Russell and Dong (1994) typo confuses Nick

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Nick Gardner (paleo_otaku95@eudoramail.com) wrote:

<So I'm hopping through Russell and Dong (1994) as part of a personal
review of segnosaurs and I notice a typo and I need some help
understanding it.  So, if those of you with a copy of this paper would
turn to page 2121 and look on the continued paragraph:
 
"(8) rectangular buttress from metacarpal underlies metacarpal II">

  An assumption of metacarpal one is correct, as this forms a broad flange
that underlies the palmar (i.e., ventral) surface of metacarpal two.
Metacarpal three is also ventrally butressed by the second metacarpal, but
not by such an expansive "flange."

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Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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