Re: New issue of JVP 2001(2) (no JOKE)

[Dinogeorge@aol.com]

In a message dated 7/12/01 11:54:24 PM EST, qilongia@yahoo.com writes:

<< *Oviraptor* = snatcher of eggs
   *Conchoraptor* = snatcher of shells
   *Velociraptor* = snatcher of swift[ness]
   *Utahraptor* = snatcher of [a/the] Utah [as if there was an
 object called a Utah that could be grasped between the limbs]
   *Bambiraptor* = snatcher of Bambi [not _ever_ in reference to
 the Disney character, or the Italian word "bambino", but as a
 nickname for the specimen]
   *Rapator* [probably? a "revision" of _raptor_] = snatcher?
   *Eoraptor* = snatcher of the dawn
   *Variraptor* = snather of [a/the] Var [same as Utahraptor]
   *Pyroraptor* = snatcher of fire >>

You've omitted Valdoraptor (sniff) = "Wealden snatcher," for the species
Megalosaurus (and Altispinax) oweni. The metatarsus is distinctive in that
the third metatarsal is significantly thicker and more robust than the second
and fourth--kind of an "antiarctometatarsalian" condition.