Re: *Microraptor* the biplane: published

[Michael Habib <mhabib5@jhmi.edu>]

On Wednesday, January 24, 2007, at 12:52 PM, jrc wrote:

> Has anyone demonstrated yet that the hindlimb feathers were capable of 
> transmitting bending loads to the hindlimb skeleton?
> JimC

I'm reasonably certain that no one has, for either of the proposed 
feather attachment orientations.  I am still a bit skeptical of the 
arrangement that Chatterjee and Templin suggest for that reason (as 
well as a couple others), but that's just my personal take.

Cheers,

--Mike H.


> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roberto Takata" 
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> To: "Dinosaur Mailing List" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 9:15 AM
> Subject: Re: *Microraptor* the biplane: published
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>
> > If Chatterjee is correct in his analysis, a biplane mode of flight
> > would be plesiomorphic to Aves or an autapomorphy of _Microraptor_?