Re: Tanycolagreus topwilsoni

["Cliff Green" <dinonaut@emerytelcom.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cliff Green" <dinonaut@emerytelcom.net>
To: <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 1:41 PM
Subject: Re: Tanycolagreus topwilsoni


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Waylon Rowley" <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>
> To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
> Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2001 1:15 AM
> Subject: Re: Tanycolagreus topwilsoni
>
>
> > Many thanks to HP Irmis for sending me the photos he
> > took of "Tanycolagreus topwilsoni." Just a few
> > questions, though. Would you expect this animal to
> > have such a reduced distal fibula? Also, does anyone
> > know if that skull is a cast reconstruction or fake?
>
    I worked with Western for almost a year on the NAMAL project. Although
what was once called "Solarus" or some such, does have a few original bones,
 it is mostly a composite, created it the lab with a duplicating machine.
     I am still friends with the person who did most of the reproduction
work
 on it and the juvenile ceratosaur. Hell, I even helped reconstruct a few
 bones of the ceratosaur.  Although the Tany skull has some of the premax, a
 lacrimal, teeth and a few other elements, the skull was created using their
 best guestimates. I remember being rebuffed after asking why it looked so
 muck like an small allosaur. The post cranial material is scant, but they
do
 have some pretty good hand claws.

Cliff Green

> > It looks phoney, but maybe that's how this critter
> > actually looked? The 2nd manual digit looks freakishly
> > elongated, and the claws look almost therizinosauroid
> > in their curvature. All-in-all it reminds me more of
> > _Compsognathus_ than _Ornitholestes_. If anyone has a
> > scanned skeletal photo or drawing of _Coelurus_ I
> > would like to compare the two side-by-side. Thanks
> > everyone...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Waylon Rolwey
> >
> >
> >
> >
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