Re: Epidendrosaurus, Systematic Observations pt. 1

["T. Michael Keesey" <mightyodinn@yahoo.com>]

--- "Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>   http://qilong.8m.com/Epidendrosaurus_ningchengensis_skeleton.jpg.

Those are some long arms! The paper dismisses the idea that it could engage in
flapping flight because the manus is too long. What does the list think?

Seems to fit well with Dial's wing-assisted vertical running suggestion. I
wonder if it might have had semi-wings, a la some of the Yixian
_Eumaniraptora_. The third (or is it fourth...) manual digit might have become
elongated to reach beyond the feathers, although why I have no idea.
(Just some idle speculations.)

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