RE: Trackprints in Texas

["Stewart, Dwight" <Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Miller III [SMTP:gbabcock@best.com]
> Sent: Friday, November 20, 1998 10:38 AM
> To:   Dwight.Stewart@VLSI.com; 'paleo_mont@mailexcite.com';
> dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject:      Re: Trackprints in Texas
> 
>  
> If you open your hymnal -- that is, your copy of Gregory S. Paul's
> _Predatory Dinosaurs of the World_ -- to page 134, illustration 5-3, you
> will see a depiction of the alleged "human footprint" compared to a
> digitigrade and plantigrade theropod track.  Paul discusses the so-called
> "human prints" on the previous page.  The book suggests that the tracks
> may
> have been made by _Acrocanthosaurus atokensis_ walking
> plantigrade-fashion,
> and that the theropod's toes didn't press down with enough force to show
> up
> in the track.
> 
> -- Ralph Miller III     gbabcock@best.com   
> 
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        Good ole Acrocanthosaurus!  My candidate for the Texas State
Dinosaur!  :-)  

        Dwight