Re: Dino locomotuon article

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <th81@umail.umd.edu>]

At 11:31 AM 5/9/99 -0500, Megaraptor wrote:
>I ran across this article today and I though you, the members of the DML
>might find it interesting, so here it is:
>
>
>                      Foot-Movement Similarity In
>                      Dinosaurs And Birds Shown by
>                            Fossil Footprints
>
>Research examining theropod dinosaur prints has found that foot motions
>were preserved in three dimensions when the  meat eaters slopped through
>mud 210 million years ago. And
>while there are significant differences in the position of the big toe,
>foot posture and hind limb movement, the footprints show similarities
>with those made by modern day birds.

[snip]

>The study will be published in the journal Nature.

Note that it already HAS been published, and in fact the whole text and
figures are web-accessible (as the Nature Feature of the Week) at:
http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/wbsp-index.cgi?def=3732a004.def&deflist=372872

(This is the main page for the Feature of the Week, from which several
dinosaur, pterosaur, and other vert track papers are available.  The study
mentione above is:

Three-dimensional preservation of foot movements in Triassic theropod dinosaurs 
STEPHEN M. GATESY, KEVIN M. MIDDLETON, FARISH A. JENKINS JR & NEIL H. SHUBIN

So you have to go down a screen to get to this one).

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
Vertebrate Paleontologist     Webpage: http://www.geol.umd.edu
Dept. of Geology              Email:tholtz@geol.umd.edu
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