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> I found
an interesting site that shows fairly high
> quality
photos of Mike Triebold's giant caenagnathid
>
at:
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> http://www.trieboldpaleontology.com/casts/oviraptor.htm
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> 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).<<
No
pygostyle, I talked to Mike T. about it.
(would have
been a bit surprising anyway given that no oviraptorid has
one)
For the
record I was the first to draw not only a Chirostenotes skeleton (1988), but
also the first to draw an Oviraptorid with a short tail! Now this specimen
shows it, and the new oviraptorids at the AMNH. It’s nice to be right
(sometimes, that is).
Olshevsky, G., 1988, A Caenagnathid
Specimen from Alberta: Archosaurian Articulations, v. 1, n. 5, p.
33-36.
Congratulations.
Measurements
that, I hope, show that such a short tail links Metornithes and
"Enigmosauria" will follow... :-)
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