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Re: Holtz v. Sereno???
>From: GSP1954@aol.com
> ... The stance they show is very different from the multiple
> Triceratops trackways (see the latest J. Vert Paleo), and therefore
> wrong.
That article is very clear - the front feet were close under the body.
As the article point out, this leaves only two possible stances:
a fully erect stance, and a crocodile-like wide-elbow stance with the
feet tucked under the body. [They favor the first, but they do not
really provide any unequivocal support for that preference].
> The best talk at the meeting was that by Dave Thomas, who showed that Bird's
> old Texas Cretaceous trackway does show a big theropod attacking the tail of
> a sauropod. He is almost certainly correct.
I always have felt the association here was too close to be chance.
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