Re: Velociraptor Footprints( Arundel contemporary)

[NJPharris@aol.com]

In a message dated 97-08-27 03:20:09 EDT, Dinogeorge@aol.com writes:

> << To date, NO dermal armor or
>   horns have been reported which has led me to hypothesize that P. crassus 
> was
>   a _NAKED_ Nodosaur! >>
>  
>  Absence of evidence is not necessarily evidence of absence.

Are you (Thomas R. Lipka) hypothesizing that nakedness was a primitive
condition for nodosaurs?  Or that _Priconodon_ had lost the body armor of its
ancestors?  If the former, I would have to say that the presence of body
armor in polacanthids, ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, scelidosaurs, scutellosaurs,
and all other nodosaurids makes it most unlikely that nodosaurs were
primitively unarmored.

NP