RE: Raptors

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

On the same "raptorish" thread :-): was Utahraptor known at the time that
JP1 was made?  And, speaking of Dromaeosaurs, does anyone have a good
mechanical model of how fast they could run.  50-60 MPHs sounds high to me
for an animal with legs like theirs.  I would guess that's more in line for
Gallimimus.

Dwight

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Jonathon Woolf [SMTP:jwoolf@erinet.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, September 03, 1998 7:15 PM
        To:     James.Close@LibertyMutual.com
        Cc:     Dinosaur@usc.edu
        Subject:        Re: Raptors

        James Close wrote:

        > Velociraptor lived in Mongolia..... it was 6 feet long. a lot
smaller
        > than the "raptor" that was depicted in the movie.
        > The dinosaur that I feel was shown in the movie, was robbed of its
true
        > name, and called velociraptor was Deinonocus (sp?). Deinonocus was
        > Velociraptor's larger, North American Cousin.

        At the time JP the book was written, there was an idea floating
about that
        _Velociraptor mongoliensis_ and _Deinonychus antirrhopus_ belonged
in the
        same genus, which by the rules of priority would be called
_Velociraptor_.

        -- Jon W.