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RE: Tyrannosaur #1 pedal digit and hollow bones
Tracy Ford (dino.hunter@cox.net) wrote:
<[...] on the back side of MT there is a single 'groove' midway up the
metatarsal (Not the same in T. rex, there's two). I've been told that that
is a muscle attachment area. Ok, if so, then an animal that we know lacks
MT 1 should have it also. I've looked at ornithomimid MT II and they all
lack the groove. So I'm thinking this is were MT 1 sat. Except in T. rex,
which has two grooves. Why I don't know.>
Possibly to indicate the medial surface of mtI or possibly because the
element could shift position, and change from one orientation to
another...
Speaking of halluces:
*Aucasaurus* has a very, very tiny hallux that is shorter (the digit)
than the first phalanx of the second digit. The metatarsal I is very short
with a curving shaft that looks as if it articulated on the side and was
almost vestigial.
Cheers,
=====
Jaime A. Headden
Little steps are often the hardest to take. We are too used to making leaps
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do. We should all
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.
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