Re: SVP Poster Citation

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

David Marjanovic (david.marjanovic@gmx.at) wrote:

<Maybe by citing the abstract: Nick Longrich: M. M.? A. a. A., SVP meeting 
abstracts 2000
(supplement to JVP 3(2000)), p. 54A (September 2000)>

  Yes, one cites the poster as the abstract, since it is the same information 
and has been
published. The imagery would need to come from Nick if he's willing.
 
<BTW, while the hypothesis is intriguing, it still suffers from the extreme 
shortness of
mononykine arms, which are totally ridiculous compared to the arms of all 
modern anteaters...>

  Shortness compared to what?

  I have compared, as has Nick and a few others, the arms to those of modern 
digging animals, and
we _all_ find a close mole-like form to the arm, inspite of the location on a 
long-legged body,
such that the arms seem disproportionately small. That's the only problem with 
the comaprison.

  But if you need taxa to compare, find work on the arms of *Talpa* or 
*Amblysoma* (I compared to
the latter) ... this indicates the arsm were perfectly adapted for digging. 
This leaves
paleobiology for the most part.



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Jaime A. Headden

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