several subjects

["David Marjanovic" <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mickey Mortimer" <Mickey_Mortimer11@msn.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 10:31 PM
Subject: Re: Ornithomimid beaks


> I never thought of mononykines having beaks before, but
> I suppose their tooth distribution is similar to Pelecanimimus.

AFAIK they had much less and much smaller teeth.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Waylon Rowley" <whte_rbt_obj@yahoo.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 9:40 PM
Subject: Giant caenagnathid pix

> I found an interesting site that shows fairly high
> quality photos of Mike Triebold's giant caenagnathid
> at:
>
> http://www.trieboldpaleontology.com/casts/oviraptor.htm
>
> Worth looking at.

Indeed...
Very short tail (shorter than the legs it seems) with something like 30
vertebrae... unless the chevronless end of the tail is a *Nomingia*-style
pygostyle (impossible to see).

While I am at writing about bird relatives... I've found the following
yesterday and no rebuttal of it, at least not before mid-October 1994:
http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1994Sep/0022.html
Says *Archaeopteryx* was incapable of flying [in air B-) ] because its wing
feathers aren't asymmetric _enough_.