Re: Irritator as Spinosaur

["Nicholas J. Pharris" <pharrinj@PLU.edu>]

On Wed, 31 Jan 1996 Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:

> >Does anyone know anything about the feet of _Baryonyx_?  Particularly the 
> >proximal ends of the metatarsals, as these can show not only whether 
> >_Bary_ is an arctomet but also positively whether it is a halticosaur, 
> >megalosaur, allosaur, or whatever.
> >
> >
> 
> Not known. I checked, because my genus _Valdoraptor_ is based on metatarsals,
> most emphatically not arctometatarsalian.

I'm sorry.  I must have missed something here.  What does _Valdoraptor_ 
have to do with _Baryonyx_?  Were you thinking they might be the same 
animal?  Quite right about _Valdoraptor_, though.  Looks more like a 
eustreptospondyl or allosaur foot to me.

Nick Pharris
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
(206)535-8204
PharriNJ@PLU.edu

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