Re: Troodon fingers,etc

[Betty Cunningham <bettyc@flyinggoat.com>]

though not a debate, good ol T rex through in a wrench with his surprise
two fingered hands....earlier restorations were all based on allosaurid
3 fingers.

-Betty

"T. Mike Keesey" wrote:
> Which book shows it with two fingers? It certainly does have three -- like
> all other troodontids. I've never even heard of anyone reconstructing it
> with two. The only debate over a theropod's finger count that I can think
> of was _Compsognathus_ -- and that seems to have been settled in favor of
> three.

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