SYNDACTYLY

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Alan Edels said:

"Someone mentioned syndactyly - I was wondering if Ray or other "trackies"
had seen any
trackway evidence of it?"

    I've never seen a conjoined second and third digit in any tracks around
here, but try to be alert for evidence of it.  I'd be a lot less surprised
to find it in a marsupial track, than either the manus or the pes imprint of
a dinosaur.  In the former I might consider it normal and important evidence
of a specific type of marsupial, but in the latter, I might suspicion a
congenital deformity.

    Ray Stanford

"You know my method.  It is founded upon the observance of trifles." --
Sherlock Holmes in The Boscombe Valley Mystery

----- Original Message -----
From: "Allan Edels" <edels@msn.Com>
To: "'Dinosaur Mailing List'" <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 4:36 AM
Subject: RE: Just following the trend of questioning...[Humor] :o) - and
more


...TO make sure that the topic of dinosaurs is contained in this message,
and referring back some of the original posts:   Someone mentioned
syndactyly - I was wondering if Ray or other "trackies" had seen any
trackway evidence of it?

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