Re: So-called Sickle Claws

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 12:27 PM 8/21/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Also, the BIG deinonychus claw seems to vary wildly in size from picture to
>picture and from one restoration to another.  Do we absolutely know that a
>claw from one individual has not been composited onto the toe of another
>(smaller) one?  Composite skeletons are certainly on view in many museums.
>Just after the facts.  Thanks.

The foot of the type clearly belongs together, and it has a bigass claw.

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:th81@umail.umd.edu
University of Maryland        Phone:301-405-4084
College Park, MD  20742       Fax:  301-314-9661