Re: Information on Pelecanimimus

[Jonathon Woolf <jwoolf@erinet.com>]

Dinogeorge@aol.com wrote:
> 
> No chance of a chimera; the type specimen is a single animal squashed flat
> into a slab. Only forequarters are known, from skull to about mid-thorax,
> including complete shoulder girdle and forelimb. 

Archosaur roadkill, eh? <g>  This might be a stupid question, but if the
thing was "squashed flat," how confident can anyone be of the
reconstruction?  Especially if we only have the one specimen?  Or are
there other specimens?

> Here are two references you can check:

I'll see if I can find them.  Thanks.

> Take the sprawling stance depicted in these references with a grain of salt,
> since we do not know the hindquarters at all. I suspect the hindquarters,
> when found, will be quite dinosaurian (erect stance, possibly even long
> enough for bipedality).

Um, I hope you'll excuse me if I take a wait-and-see attitude on this.

-- JSW