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RE: feathers and WWD and Utahraptor ...
There are no complete skeletons published yet: new evidence of the anatomy is
forthcoming.
No direct evidence of feathers. Or scales. Or anything. Like the vast majority
of deposits, it is not a unit which records
integument.
Phylogenetic position nests it deeply within fully feathered animals, however.
Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Email: tholtz@umd.edu Phone: 301-405-4084
Office: Centreville 1216
Senior Lecturer, Vertebrate Paleontology
Dept. of Geology, University of Maryland
http://www.geol.umd.edu/~tholtz/
Fax: 301-314-9661
Faculty Director, Science & Global Change Program, College Park Scholars
http://www.geol.umd.edu/sgc
Fax: 301-314-9843
Mailing Address: Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Department of Geology
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University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA
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> Subject: re: feathers and WWD and Utahraptor ...
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>
> Dixon (2006) lists a size of 19.5' - nose to tail, I guess?
> The illustrator has fine "hair feathers" over most of the body but the mane
> is feathered. He also states the species is known
from a
> single specimen.
>
> Prof. Holtz's book has a painting by Mr. Rey with part of the arm, the torso
> and the top of the tail feathered (it's also being
abused by a
> sauropod ...) The text lists it at 23'.
>
> 1) are more specimens now known and 2) is there physical evidence of feathers
> on this critter?
>
> I didn't pull out any other books - too lazy. :-)
>
> Brian