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Re: New references
Jaime Headden wrote-
> Nitpicking, but Mickey and I disagree (what's new?) ...
But only in semantics this time.
> It is this medial wall that Mickey apparently perceives as a continuous
> surface of the maxillary wall, but it is a sharp-rimmed fenestra, and the
> condition is corroborated in *Troodon formosus* by a personal
> communication from Chris Brochu.
I refer to such depressions as fossae, as opposed to fenestrae, which would
actually fully penetrate the bone. Just as the antorbital fossa of
Erlikosaurus or Chirostenotes has a well defined overhanging rim, so does
the maxillary fossa of Byronosaurus. It doesn't make any of them fenestrae.
Mickey Mortimer