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Hi all,
does anybody know if "Archaeoraptor"'s skull (with
the rest of the chimaeric body) depicted on November 1999 NG issue is the same
skull described as Microraptor's one by Xing Xu et al.?
They seem pretty different from one another, but it
may be only a misinterpretation(of mine) due to the fact that
NG's image of the slab shows the UV lighted skeleton, while nature's image
is a drawing, so some particulars may be interpretated
differently....
The two skulls seem also differently shaped (well,
what remains of the skulls..) and the angles between the outer anterior
margins (should be dentary and pmx-mx-nas in both) are different
too...
I don't want to know what the other skull is (if
it's another thing from Microraptor skull), because of obvious reasons, but only
if somebody knows if they're the same thing or not.
Thanks
Bye
Filippo Calzolari
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