RE: Just following the trend of questioning...

["Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>]

Luis Rey wrote:

> Good that you bring attention to the text on that illustration anyway.
> It is outdated: New, detailed paper on Caudipteryx points out that the 
> third finger retains only two phalanges and is virtually atrophied, 
> clawless and maybe almost fused to the second finger. 

Maybe a case of syndactyly, then?  Interesting.

On that point, the second and third fingers of elmisaurids have been
considered possibly syndactylous (by Phil Currie, I think it was).



Tim