Tyranno Hands - Wings and Such

[Tony Thulborn <paswamp@mailbox.uq.oz.au>]

Sorry I missed this discussion owing to absence on fieldwork.  However, I 
caught the message from Tom Holtz (May 16) that "most" theropod workers 
would regard Tyrannosaur digits as numbers 1 and 2.  On behalf of the "few" 
who disagree and would identify them as 2 and 3, let me chuck in these 
references:

Wellnhofer, P.  1985.  Remarks on the digit and pubis problems of 
Archaeopteryx.  pp. 113-122 in M.K. Hecht et al., The Beginnings of Birds 
[Eichstatt Archaeopteryx conference volume]

Thulborn, R.A.  1993.  A tale of three fingers: ichnological evidence 
revealing the homologies of manual digits in theropod dinosaurs.  Bull. 
New Mexico Mus. nat. Hist. & Sci., 3: 461-463.  [Nonmarine Triassic 
volume edited by Spencer Lucas and Mike Morales.]

I'm confident that this latter paper will change no opinions!

Tony Thulborn