Re: Oryctos Is Back

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Williams" <twilliams_alpha@hotmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:45 AM

> This issue of _Oryctos_ is stacked with BANDit/MANIAC boilerplate.  Larry 
> Martin's abstract says it all...
>
> [...]
>
> (a) there is no evidence that _Microraptor_ actually adopted Beebe's 
> 'tetrapteryx' pose, since this required the femora to be laterally 
> splayed;

In 2006, at the 2nd International Palaeontological Congress, Larry Martin 
told me that he had some ongoing work on 50 specimens (!) that showed 
*Microraptor* was _too_ capable of sprawling. This was, IIRC, supposed to be 
published soon; in any case I didn't get another answer when I asked how 
sprawling was compatible with the photos in Hwang et al. (2002).

I'm not holding my breath anymore...