Re: My Phylogeny: Now Slowly Comes Science

["Andy Farke" <andyfarke@hotmail.com>]

David Marjanovic posted:

> Measured off the screen at
> http://www.geocities.com/strangetruther/otherdroms.html:
>
> *Bambiraptor* femur length: 2.2 cm trunk length: 3.3 leg length 6.6 tail
> length: 7.3
>
> In terms of proportions *Bambiraptor* is somehow transitional between
> *Archaeopteryx* and Dromaeosauridae. The legs are even longer relative to
> the trunk, though. Among those I have measured only the pigeon reaches
this
> 2 : 1 ratio and only *Sinornithoides* and probably *Caudipteryx* surpass
it.

I'm not sure how significant this would actually be. . .the Bambiraptor
specimen was a juvenile, and so leg proportions for the one known specimen
(Bambi) may be different from those of an adult Bambiraptor (Bambi's Mom or
Dad). Also, there was a little bit of crushing in Bambi. I don't know of any
good growth series for dromaeosaurids (perhaps Velociraptor. . .but nothing
has been published). That would be the most help at this point!

Best,

Andy
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