What Lies Beneath "Ingenia"

[Jaime Headden <qi_leong@hotmail.com>]

I've recently completed what is mostly the final product of a layer by layer 
soft- and hard-tissue reconstruction of the major anatomical systems of an 
oviraptorid theropod. This can be viewed here: 
http://qilong.wordpress.com/2013/06/08/peel-back-the-layers/

I am not looking for praise. I tried to employ basic first-principles analysis 
of the bones and reverse engineered the oviraptorid to permit a generalized 
reconstructed, but some of it (the arrangements of arterial and nerve lines) 
ends up as virtual art, but I've certainly made errors, and I've omitted things 
such as the pneumatic diverticulae that progress through the spinal cord and 
around the tail. I wonder at whether the abdominal muscles shoudl be 
reconstructed expanded across the sub-pelvic, inguinal space. These things bug 
me, and there's not been many answers published: birds have these muscles 
extend to the tail, and this seems to work in helping ceratopsians  and other 
ornithischians with short pubes, so I've reconstructed it that way for the 
oviraptorids.

Anyways, I'd like some experts to take a look at these general reconstructions 
and point out where I can improve.

Cheers,

  Jaime A. Headden
  The Bite Stuff (site v2)
  http://qilong.wordpress.com/

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


"Ever since man first left his cave and met a stranger with a
different language and a new way of looking at things, the human race
has had a dream: to kill him, so we don't have to learn his language or
his new way of looking at things." --- Zapp Brannigan (Beast With a Billion 
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