Re: When Dinosaurs Etc.

["Martin Barnett" <martin.barnett3@virgin.net>]

While we're on the subject of Carnotaurus - on what grounds did Bonaparte
reconstruct the fore-limbs of this animal with the thumbs upside-down?
Doesn't this seem a little unlikely since ALL other known vertebrates with
thumbs exist with their thumbs up (including carnotaurus' presumed ancesters
AND the ancestors of the dinosauria)  Plus, aren't it's arms cramped too
close together at the front of the body? - it certainly looks that way
particularly since the trailing edge of the shoulder-blade hovers a good
foot out from the curve of the ribs.  One would have thought to reconstruct
the entire girdle where they fit on the body.
Samuel Barnett


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Subject: Re: When Dinosaurs Etc.


> In a message dated 8/25/99 9:18:46 PM EST, vonrex@gte.net writes:
>
> << Also, did I imagine this or did Jose Bonaparte actually say that he
thought
>  Carnotaurus used its horns like bulls do, to gore and kill? >>
>
>
> Yes, that's what he said.
>
> When Jeff Goldblum said in the voiceover, "Here in the Museum of Buenos
Aires
> in Argentina lurks a strange and ferocious creature (or words to that
> effect)," at the same time that Jose Bonaparte walked into the room, I
broke
> up.
>