Re: paleonet Czerkas and Norell in Discover

["John Huntley" <huntley_john@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok fellas,

If you don't have anything nice to say...



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John Warren Huntley
PhD Candidate, Department of Geosciences
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
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>From: Dinogeorge@aol.com
>Reply-To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
>To: paleonet@nhm.ac.uk
>CC: Dinogeorge@aol.com, george.olshevsky@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: paleonet Czerkas and Norell in Discover
>Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:43:57 EDT
>
>In a message dated 7/27/2005 6:52:03 AM Pacific Standard Time,
>tijawi@yahoo.com writes:
>
>Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
>
>
> > I am looking right now at the original description, the figure of  the
>manus on p 2117. There is
> > no semilunate carpal.
>
>
>There is a trochleate articulation.  This is functionally and  anatomically
>homologous to the maniraptoran semilunate carpal  joint.
>
>But it's not a semilunate carpal. That came later in segnosaurs.  
>Homologous,
>schmo-mologous.
>
>
>
> > Someone out there has an overactive imagination.
>
>Indeed.  The culprit is closer than you might think.   :-)
>
>Who? You??
>
>