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Re: Pterosaurs in trees? NOT!

At 22.49 18/06/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> Speaking of Pterosaurs,could they hang upside down like a bat?
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>                                                Caleb
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Bramwell and Whitfield (1974) say yes for _Pteranodon_, but to prominences
of rocks, not to trees. More recently it is observed by other authors, like
Padian, that upside position was not very confortable for pterosaurs, due to
structure and disposition of bones in the backlimbs.

Eugenio Spreafico